The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 17
‘Well, my life is worth more than a thousand dogs,’ answered the king, ‘the welfare of my kingdom depends on me.
Who acts: life, welfare · What happens: be, answer, depend · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, welfare), 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 | _ | 7 worth | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 worth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 worth | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 worth | cop |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 thousand | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 more | fixed |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thousand | det |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 dogs | nummod |
| 12 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worth | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 worth | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 worth | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 depends | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 depends | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 welfare | det |
| 21 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 depends | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 welfare | nmod |
| 25 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 king | acl:relcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 depends | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my life | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | depend | present | the welfare of my kingdom | the king not said here | on me | tree rules |
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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