The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 63
‘I suspected,’ said the King, ‘that Ring was not quite useless; never have I seen such a day’s work.’
Who acts: I, King, Ring, day · What happens: suspect, say, not be, see, work · To what, where: work · 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 (I, King, Ring, day), 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 suspected | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suspected | nsubj |
| 3 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspected | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspected | 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 | _ | 16 useless | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 useless | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 Ring | det |
| 12 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 useless | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 useless | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 useless | advmod |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 useless | advmod |
| 16 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seen | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 work | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 work | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 day | case |
| 26 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | that Ring | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | I | a day's work | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | work | a day | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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