The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 86
Red said that he had just remembered the gold cloak, gold chess-board, and bright gold piece that the King had lost about a year before.
Who acts: Red · What happens: say, remember, lose · To what, where: gold cloak, bright gold piece · 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 (Red), 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 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 remembered | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remembered | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remembered | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 remembered | advmod |
| 7 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cloak | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cloak | compound |
| 10 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 board | punct |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 board | compound |
| 13 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 board | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 chess | punct |
| 15 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cloak | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 piece | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 piece | cc |
| 18 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 piece | amod |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | compound |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembered | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | aux |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 piece | acl:relcl |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | obl |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 25 lost | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Red | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | remember | past · perfect | Red | the gold cloak and gold chess board | bright gold piece obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | |||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect · passive | bright gold piece | year | before property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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