The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 30
But the king said: ‘I cannot leave it with you, my daughter, for it is only lent to me.’
Who acts: king, I · What happens: say, not leave, lend · To what, where: head, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 leave | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 leave | advmod |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lent | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 lent | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lent | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lent | aux:pass |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 lent | advmod |
| 22 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 leave | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 lent | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not leave | can | I | head | with you; my daughter obl | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with you=Theme | |||
| 3 | lend | present · passive | head | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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