The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 92

But the king said, ‘The flying horse is all very well, but I want something more.

Who acts: king, flying horse, I · What happens: say, fly, be, want · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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, flying horse, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
8	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 well	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 well	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 want	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 want	obj
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 something	amod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the flying horse		all, well property	tree rules
4	want	present	I	something		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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