The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 60
But before the Prince went to the tournament he said to his wife, ‘Now I know you will betray me to-day.’
Who acts: Prince, I, you · What happens: go, say, know, betray · To what, where: tournament, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tournament | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tournament | det |
| 8 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 know | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 betray | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 betray | aux |
| 21 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 know | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 betray | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 betray | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Prince | the tournament | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tournament=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | to prince's wife | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | betray | future | you | me | day | tree rules |
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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