The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 105
The Prince, having heard all this, said, ‘Go to the King, master, and tell him that you will provide everything that’s in your line.’
Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: hear, say, go, tell, provide · To what, where: this, Prince, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | aux |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Prince | acl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 this | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 12 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 master | punct |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 King | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tell | cc |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Go | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 provide | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 provide | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 provide | aux |
| 25 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tell | advcl |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 provide | obj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 ’s | nsubj |
| 28 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 everything | acl:relcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 line | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 line | nmod:poss |
| 31 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ’s | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund · perfect | the Prince not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | to the King and master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | provide | future | you | everything | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition everything=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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