The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 95
‘That you must find out for yourself,’ said the King: ‘I don’t know.’
Who acts: That, King, I · What happens: find out, say, not know · 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 (That, King, I), 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 | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 yourself | case |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 find | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | must | That | for yourself | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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 know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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