The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 33
When the king saw how handsome he was, he said: ‘My lad, I have pity on your youth.
Who acts: king, I · What happens: see, be, say, have · To what, where: pity, youth · 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 handsome | advmod |
| 6 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 handsome | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 handsome | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 lad | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 lad | punct |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lad | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | vocative |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 youth | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 youth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | king | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king | My lad vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | pity | your youth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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