The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 44
Then the King was very angry and said, ‘If I had known what a lot of trouble you would have been, I would never have taken you into my house.’
Who acts: King, I · What happens: be, say, know, not take · To what, where: lot, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 angry | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 known | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 known | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 taken | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lot | det |
| 17 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trouble | case |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lot | nmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 taken | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 taken | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 been | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 taken | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 taken | advmod |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 taken | aux |
| 29 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 known | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 taken | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 house | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 house | nmod:poss |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not take | would · perfect · passive | a lot of trouble | my house | tree rules |
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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