The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 27
‘And the king’s daughter?’ said the hermit.
Who acts: ‘ · What happens: say · To what, where: hermit · 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 (‘), 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 daughter | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ‘ | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 ‘ | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 ‘ | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hermit | det |
| 11 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ‘ and the king's daughter | the hermit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hermit=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 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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