The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 75
‘Sire,’ replied the cockchafer, ‘his kingdom is thirty thousand leagues from this; you have come the longest way.’
Who acts: Sire, kingdom, you · What happens: reply, be, come · To what, where: cockchafer, thousand leagues, this, longest way
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 (Sire, kingdom, you), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cockchafer | det |
| 7 | cockchafer | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leagues | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 leagues | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leagues | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 leagues | cop |
| 13 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 thousand | compound |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 leagues | nummod |
| 15 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cockchafer | appos |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 this | case |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 leagues | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 23 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | the cockchafer | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cockchafer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | sire's kingdom | thousand leagues | this | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | present · perfect | you | the longest way | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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