The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 74
The fool, however, spoke up, and said that he could do so quite easily, and the king then came forward with the six bushels of money which the youth had lent him.
Who acts: fool, king · What happens: speak up, say, do, come forward, lend · To what, where: fool, 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 (fool, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fool | det |
| 2 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fool | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 spoke | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoke | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 easily | advmod |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 easily | advmod |
| 17 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 came | advmod |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoke | conj |
| 24 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 bushels | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bushels | det |
| 27 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 bushels | nummod |
| 28 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 money | case |
| 30 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bushels | nmod |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 lent | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 youth | det |
| 33 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lent | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 lent | aux |
| 35 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 money | acl:relcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 lent | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak up speech: other | past | the fool | however property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | do | could | fool | easily property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come forward | past | the king | then | with the six bushels of money; forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | lend | past · perfect · passive | the youth | tree rules |
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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