The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 96
The King sighed, but made no answer--indeed, what was there to be said to such a clear-sighted person?
Who acts: King · What happens: sigh, make, be, say, sight · To what, where: answer, sighted person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sighed | ccomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 answer | det |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 answer | punct |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 there | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 made | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 said | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | aux:pass |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 there | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 person | case |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 person | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 person | det |
| 21 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sighted | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 clear | punct |
| 23 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 person | amod |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the King not said here | no answer | indeed property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product | |||
| 3 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | such sighted person | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: to person=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | sight | participle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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