The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 18
‘Well,’ said the King, ‘since you are so kind as to ask me, I prefer champagne to anything else.’
Who acts: King, you, I · What happens: say, be, ask, prefer · To what, where: me, champagne · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 10 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 kind | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 kind | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kind | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 kind | advmod |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 ask | mark |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ask | mark |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 kind | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prefer | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 prefer | nsubj |
| 21 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 22 | champagne | champagne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prefer | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 anything | case |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 prefer | obl |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 anything | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | prefer | present | I | champagne | to anything | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer champagne=Stimulus |
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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