The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 38
‘Yes, indeed,’ said the sultan, ‘you shall marry our daughter on Monday.’
Who acts: you · What happens: say, marry · To what, where: sultan, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sultan | det |
| 9 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marry | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 marry | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 marry | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 marry | aux |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Monday | case |
| 18 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the sultan | indeed property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic | ||||
| 2 | marry | shall | you | our daughter | monday | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/38/