The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 9
‘Here are some lovely figs for the king,’ said he, ‘if his majesty will graciously accept them with my humble duty.’
Who acts: lovely figs, majesty · What happens: be, say, accept · To what, where: Figs · 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 (lovely figs, majesty), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 said | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 figs | det |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 figs | amod |
| 6 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 figs | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 figs | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 figs | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 accept | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 accept | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 accept | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accept | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 accept | aux |
| 20 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 21 accept | advmod |
| 21 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 accept | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 duty | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 duty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 duty | amod |
| 26 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 accept | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | some lovely figs for the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | accept a condition, not said to happen | future | king's majesty | Figs = fig | with my humble duty; graciously property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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