The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 117
The king gave a cry, but stopped himself, and asked, ‘What do you want the floor up for?
Who acts: king, you · What happens: give, stop, ask, want up · To what, where: cry, king, floor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stopped | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 stopped | cc |
| 8 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 stopped | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 want | obj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 want | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 floor | det |
| 20 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 want | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 want | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 want | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | a cry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the king not said here | king | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality himself=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | want up | present · do-support | you | the floor | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme floor=Attribute |
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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