The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 95
The king and the queen were out in the garden then, and the king said, ‘Now I can’t and I won’t wait any longer.
Who acts: queen, king, I · What happens: be, say, not wait · To what, where: garden · 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 (queen, king, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 garden | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 garden | cop |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 garden | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wait | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 wait | punct |
| 19 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 ca | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ca | nsubj |
| 21 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 wait | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 ca | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wait | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 wait | nsubj |
| 25 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 wait | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 wait | advmod |
| 27 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | conj |
| 28 | any | any | ADV | _ | 29 longer | advmod |
| 29 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 wait | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the queen | the garden | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king and the garden | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not wait | can · future | I | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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