The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 63
One day the king came into the stable, where there was no one present except the youth, who said straight out to him that, with his majesty’s permission, he wished to ask him why he was so sorrowful.
Who acts: king, one present, youth, majesty · What happens: come, be, say, wish, ask, permit · To what, where: stable, one present, that, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, one present, youth, majesty), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 stable | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stable | det |
| 8 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 present | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 was | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 present | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 present | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 present | compound |
| 15 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stable | nmod |
| 16 | except | except | ADP | _ | 18 youth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 present | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 present | conj |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 out | advmod |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 said | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 said | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 permission | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 permission | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 30 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 permission | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 majesty | case |
| 32 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wished | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 wished | nsubj |
| 35 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 ask | mark |
| 37 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wished | xcomp |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ask | obj |
| 39 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 sorrowful | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 sorrowful | cop |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 sorrowful | advmod |
| 43 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ask | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | the stable | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | no one present | except the youth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | no one present | that | youth | out property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to he=Recipient | ||
| 4 | wish | past | youth | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth not said here | youth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | youth | sorrowful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | permit | youth's majesty | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=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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