The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 92
‘It is this,’ said the King: ‘that you find for me my gold cloak, my gold chess-board, and my bright gold piece, that were stolen from me about a year ago.
Who acts: favour, this, you · What happens: be, say, find, steal · To what, where: this, 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 (favour, this, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 this | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 find | obl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cloak | compound |
| 19 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 board | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 board | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 board | amod |
| 23 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 board | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 chess | punct |
| 25 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cloak | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 piece | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 piece | cc |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 piece | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 piece | amod |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 piece | compound |
| 31 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stolen | punct |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stolen | aux:pass |
| 35 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 piece | acl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 stolen | obl |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 year | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 year | det |
| 40 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 35 stolen | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | favour | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | present | you | my gold cloak and my gold chess board | for me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | steal | past · passive | my bright gold piece | from me; ago property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from i=Source |
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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