The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 15
‘I am off to the King’s Court,’ he answered.
Who acts: I, Court · What happens: be, answer
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Court), 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 | _ | 9 Court | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Court | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Court | cop |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 am | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Court | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Court | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Court | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | to the King's Court | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the King's Court | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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