The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 173
‘That’s true,’ said the King; ‘I for one shall be quite satisfied if she is.
Who acts: That, King, I, daughter · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, King, I, daughter), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 satisfied | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 satisfied | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 satisfied | nsubj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 satisfied | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 satisfied | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 satisfied | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 satisfied | cop |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 satisfied | advmod |
| 18 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 true | conj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 is | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 is | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 satisfied | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | daughter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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