The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 28
Ciccu believed what the horse said, and prayed the king to grant him what he asked.
Who acts: Ciccu, horse, king · What happens: believe, say, pray, grant, ask · To what, where: king · 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 (Ciccu, horse, 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 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prayed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prayed | cc |
| 9 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prayed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 grant | mark |
| 13 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prayed | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grant | obj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 asked | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grant | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Ciccu | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pray | past | Ciccu not said here | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grant | to-infinitive | Ciccu not said here | king | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
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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