The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 40
‘No,’ said he; ‘say “Open, Sartara Martara of the earth.”’
Who acts: king · What happens: say · 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), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Open | punct |
| 11 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 say | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Martara | punct |
| 13 | Sartara | Sartara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Martara | compound |
| 14 | Martara | Martara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Open | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Martara | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Open | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Open | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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