The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 69
Finally, the king said to her one day, ‘This can’t be borne any longer.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, not bear · To what, where: This · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 day | nmod:poss |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 borne | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 borne | punct |
| 12 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 borne | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 borne | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 borne | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 borne | aux:pass |
| 16 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 17 | any | any | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 borne | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | day | finally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not bear | can · passive | This | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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