The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 76
Rosimond spoke first and said, ‘You have believed me to be your son.
Who acts: Rosimond · What happens: speak, say, believe, be · To what, where: You, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond), 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 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 believed | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 believed | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 believed | aux |
| 10 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 believed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 son | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 son | cop |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 believed | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Rosimond | first property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rosimond not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | believe | present · perfect · passive | You | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme i=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | your son | 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 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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