The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 61
‘How long have you been one of the King’s pages?’
Who acts: you, King · What happens: have, be, page · To what, where: one
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 (you, King), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nsubj |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 have | parataxis |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pages | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pages | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | you | one | of the King's pages | tree rules | |||
| 3 | page | the King | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=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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