The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 2
So he went to the hermit and said to him, ‘The king will only give for her dowry as much as a man can carry.
Who acts: man, king · What happens: go, say, give, carry · To what, where: hermit, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hermit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hermit | det |
| 6 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 give | advmod |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 dowry | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dowry | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 give | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 carry | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carry | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 carry | aux |
| 27 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 much | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | the hermit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hermit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man not said here | man | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | future | the king | for princess's dowry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for dowry=Asset | ||||
| 4 | carry | can | a man | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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