The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 7
The King, much moved, said, ‘Adorable Princess, dry your tears.
Who acts: King · What happens: move, say, dry · To what, where: tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 King | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Princess | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Princess | punct |
| 10 | Adorable | adorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Princess | amod |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dry | punct |
| 13 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tears | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dry | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the King not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dry | infinitive | the King not said here | your tears | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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