The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 30
‘That must be a splendid coverlet,’ said the king, and he at once sent for the brothers.
Who acts: That, splendid coverlet · What happens: be, say, send · To what, where: splendid coverlet, king, coverlet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, splendid coverlet), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 coverlet | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 coverlet | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 coverlet | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 coverlet | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coverlet | det |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coverlet | amod |
| 7 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 coverlet | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 coverlet | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 sent | obl |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 brothers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brothers | det |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | That | a splendid coverlet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a splendid coverlet | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send | participle · passive | coverlet | for the brothers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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