The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 32

Then the young man threw the skin from off him, and went to the king, saying: ‘Sire, I am persuaded I can find your daughter.’

Who acts: young man, Sire · What happens: throw, go, say, persuade, find · To what, where: skin, I, daughter · 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 (young man, Sire), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 threw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 him	case
9	off	off	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 threw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 king	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Sire	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Sire	punct
21	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 persuaded	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 persuaded	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 persuaded	aux:pass
25	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Sire	acl:relcl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 persuaded	obj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 saying	ccomp
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nmod:poss
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the young man	the skin	then	from king	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme from he=Initial_Location
2	go	past	the young man not said here			to the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the young man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	persuade	present · passive		I			tree rules
5	find	can	Sire	your daughter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic

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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