The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 127
‘Those are for your lackeys,’ said he to the King, ‘that they may drink my health.’
Who acts: lackeys · What happens: be, say, drink · To what, where: health · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lackeys), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 lackeys | det |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lackeys | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 lackeys | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lackeys | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lackeys | lackey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lackeys | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lackeys | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 drink | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drink | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 drink | aux |
| 19 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 health | nmod:poss |
| 21 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drink | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for your lackeys | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | your lackeys | to the King | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to king=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drink | may | lackeys = lackey | my health | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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