The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 23

King Lindorm lived long and happily with his queen, and there are some who say that if they are not dead now they are still living to this day.

Who acts: King, some, queen · What happens: live, be, say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, some, queen), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
2	Lindorm	Lindorm	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 queen	cc
6	happily	happily	ADV	_	9 queen	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 queen	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 queen	nmod:poss
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 are	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 are	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 are	expl
13	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 are	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 some	acl:relcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 dead	advmod
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	ccomp
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 dead	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 living	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 living	aux
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 living	advmod
27	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 dead	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 day	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 living	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	King			long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	some	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	queen		now	dead property	tree rules
5	live	present · progressive	queen		still; day		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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