The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 69
‘I am glad to see you well, friend,’ answered the King, ‘but what wind has brought you hither?’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, see, answer, bring · To what, where: you, King
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 see | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 friend | punct |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 answered | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obj |
| 24 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 22 brought | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | friend obl; well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect · passive | you | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination |
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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