The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 103
‘Hast thou watched well and faithfully the whole day?’ said the King to Cinderlad.
Who acts: thou, King · What happens: have, watch, say · To what, where: Cinderlad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, 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 | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 2 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hast | ccomp |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 watched | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 faithfully | cc |
| 7 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 5 well | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Cinderlad | case |
| 17 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | watch | past | thou | day | well property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King | Cinderlad | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to cinderlad=Experiencer clause=Topic |
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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