The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 144

You are indeed my son,’ cried the sultan.

Who acts: You · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: son, sultan

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 son	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 son	cop
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 son	advmod
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sultan	det
10	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	my son				indeed property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past		the sultan					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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