The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 19
But it so happened that the King knew better, for he had the ring himself, and he said:
Who acts: it, King, matter · What happens: happen, know, have, say · To what, where: ring · 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 (it, King, matter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 happened | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 9 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 knew | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 had | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knew | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 had | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | the King | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | past | matter | the ring | matter obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | matter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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