The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 34
And he stood before the king, and said to him: ‘Give me your daughter, O king, for I slew the seven-headed serpent.
Who acts: man, I · What happens: stand, say, give, slay · To what, where: man, daughter, me, headed serpent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Give | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Give | punct |
| 14 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Give | iobj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Give | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 king | punct |
| 19 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 20 king | discourse |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Give | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slew | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 slew | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 slew | nsubj |
| 24 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Give | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 serpent | det |
| 26 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 headed | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 seven | punct |
| 28 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 serpent | amod |
| 29 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slew | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | man | before the king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=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 | infinitive | your daughter | me | king obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=Theme | |||
| 4 | slay | past | I | the headed serpent | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Patient |
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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