The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 160
The bridegroom then asked his name; he replied that he was called Ring, and was a King’s son.
Who acts: bridegroom, Ring · What happens: ask, reply, call, be, name · To what, where: name, Ring, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom, Ring), 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 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 called | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 son | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 son | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 King | case |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | vocative |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the bridegroom | Ring's name | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Ring | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | Ring | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | a King's son | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | name | Ring | nom name «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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