The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 57
So he said to the King of the Snakes, ‘Send me home, I pray.’
Who acts: King, I · What happens: say, send, pray · To what, where: King, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Snakes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Snakes | det |
| 9 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Send | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 Send | aux |
| 12 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Send | iobj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 Send | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pray | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pray | nsubj |
| 17 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Send | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Send | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | the King | of the Snakes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | send | me | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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