The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 52
‘I am the King of the Snakes,’ was the reply, ‘and this is my palace.
Who acts: I, King, this · What happens: be · To what, where: King, reply, palace
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King, this), 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 King | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 King | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 King | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reply | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Snakes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Snakes | det |
| 8 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 King | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reply | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reply | det |
| 13 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 palace | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 20 palace | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 palace | cc |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 palace | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 palace | cop |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 palace | nmod:poss |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reply | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the King | of the Snakes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the King | the reply and my palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | my palace | 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 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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