The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 204
And Martin spoke to the King, saying, ‘King and royal father, I have suffered much at the hands of your daughter.
Who acts: Martin, King · What happens: speak, say, suffer · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | cc |
| 2 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spoke | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 suffered | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 suffered | punct |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 suffered | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 father | cc |
| 13 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 father | amod |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 King | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 suffered | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 suffered | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 suffered | aux |
| 18 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 suffered | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 hands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hands | det |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 suffered | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 daughter | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hands | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Martin | to the King | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Martin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | suffer | present · perfect | King and royal father | the hands of your daughter | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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