The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 21
But the king answered: ‘It is only a lamb, why should it not be free?’
Who acts: king, joy · What happens: answer, be, not be · To what, where: lamb
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, joy), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamb | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lamb | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lamb | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 lamb | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lamb | det |
| 11 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 free | advmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 free | aux |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 free | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 free | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 free | cop |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lamb | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamb | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | joy | a lamb | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | should | joy | free property | 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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