The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 78
And on the way the King said, ‘When I arrive, I shall be killed, and my flesh will be cooked.
Who acts: King, I · What happens: say, arrive, kill, cook · To what, where: way, I, flesh · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 10 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 arrive | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 arrive | nsubj |
| 12 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrive | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cooked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cooked | cc |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 21 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 cooked | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cooked | aux:pass |
| 24 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | the way | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | arrive | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill | shall · passive | I | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cook | future · passive | my flesh | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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