The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 156
But the King’s son stood firm by what he had commanded, and said:
Who acts: son · What happens: stand, command, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | _ | 6 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 7 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 commanded | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 commanded | aux |
| 12 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the King's son | firm property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by what=Location | ||||
| 2 | command | past · perfect | son | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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