The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 139
And when the king saw this he said to the youth, ‘You have conquered, and I can no longer withhold my daughter.
Who acts: king, You, I · What happens: see, say, conquer, withhold · To what, where: this, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, You, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 youth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 conquered | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 conquered | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 conquered | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 conquered | aux |
| 16 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 withhold | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 withhold | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 withhold | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 withhold | aux |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 withhold | advmod |
| 23 | withhold | withhold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 withhold | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | to the youth | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to youth=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | conquer | present · perfect | You | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | withhold | can | I | my daughter | long property | tree rules |
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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