The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 77
‘I will be called King Pippin,’ answered the elder.
What happens: call, answer · To what, where: I, elder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 called | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | Pippin | Pippin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 elder | det |
| 12 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | future · passive | I | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the elder | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent elder=Eventuality |
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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