The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 43
Then spoke the king and said: ‘Yes, truly, you have found the princess.
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, say, find · To what, where: king, princess · 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 (you), 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 | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 9 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 15 found | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yes | punct |
| 11 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 15 found | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 truly | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the king | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect | you | the princess | truly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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