The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 24
So the king sent for Ciccu and said to him, ‘Ciccu, you must at any price manage to get the sword of the Man-eater.’
Who acts: king, you · What happens: send, say, manage, get · To what, where: Ciccu, price, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Ciccu | case |
| 6 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ciccu | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ciccu | punct |
| 13 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 manage | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 manage | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 manage | aux |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 price | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 price | det |
| 19 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 manage | obl |
| 20 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 manage | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sword | det |
| 24 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 eater | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eater | det |
| 27 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 eater | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Man | punct |
| 29 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sword | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | for Ciccu | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | Ciccu | Ciccu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | manage | must | you | any price | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | the sword of the Man eater | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus |
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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