The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 6

The king did not answer directly, but after awhile he spoke: ‘Why should I give away my BEST sporting dog.

Who acts: king, I · What happens: not answer, speak, give away, sport · To what, where: BEST sporting dog · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answer	advmod
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	directly	directly	ADV	_	5 answer	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spoke	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 spoke	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 awhile	case
10	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	12 spoke	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spoke	nsubj
12	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	parataxis
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
15	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 give	advmod
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 spoke	ccomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 give	advmod
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 dog	nmod:poss
21	BEST	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 dog	amod
22	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 dog	amod
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	iobj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	the king		directly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	king			tree rules
3	give away	should	I	my BEST sporting dog	away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
4	sport	gerund				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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