The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 90
One day, a month or so before Christmas, the King spoke to Ring, saying that he wished to ask a great favour of him.
Who acts: King, Ring · What happens: speak, say, wish, ask, favour · To what, where: Ring, great favour · 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 (King, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 month | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 month | det |
| 5 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 so | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 spoke | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 Christmas | case |
| 9 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Christmas | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | nsubj |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Ring | case |
| 15 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 spoke | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 wished | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ask | mark |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wished | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 favour | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 favour | amod |
| 25 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ask | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 favour | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the King | Ring | before Christmas; day | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ring=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | Ring | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ring not said here | a great favour of Ring | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | favour | Ring | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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