The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 33
‘I know,’ said the King, ‘that you are plotting against my crown and person, and I have come to have an explanation with you.’
Who acts: I, King, you, my · What happens: know, say, plot, come, have, crown · To what, where: explanation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (I, King, you, my), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 plotting | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 plotting | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 plotting | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 plotting | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 plotting | aux |
| 14 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 crown | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 crown | nmod:poss |
| 17 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plotting | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 person | cc |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crown | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 come | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 come | xcomp |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 explanation | det |
| 28 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 have | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | plot | present · progressive | you | against my crown and person | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | a explanation | with you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Patient | |||
| 6 | crown | my | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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