The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 62
‘I am not in the service of the King, madam,’ answered he, ‘but in yours.’
Who acts: I, service · What happens: not be, answer · To what, where: service
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 (I, service), 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 | _ | 7 service | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 service | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 service | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 service | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 service | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 service | det |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 service | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 madam | punct |
| 12 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 service | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 service | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 service | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 yours | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 yours | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 yours | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 yours | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 yours | case |
| 21 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | the service and madam | of the King | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the service and madam | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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