The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 26
‘The king has desired me to bring back the youngest of you to become his queen,’ he replied.
Who acts: king · What happens: desire, bring back, become, reply · To what, where: me, youngest, queen
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 desired | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desired | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 desired | aux |
| 5 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 desired | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 desired | xcomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youngest | det |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 bring | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 youngest | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 become | mark |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bring | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 queen | nmod:poss |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 replied | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 replied | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 replied | nsubj |
| 21 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 desired | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present · perfect | the king | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the youngest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | the king not said here | King's queen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | King | vn respond-113 «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 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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