The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 19
The King, who hated disputes, said, ‘Very well, it’s no affair of mine, settle it your own way.’
Who acts: King · What happens: hate, say, settle · To what, where: disputes, charming · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hated | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 hated | nsubj |
| 5 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 King | acl:relcl |
| 6 | disputes | dispute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hated | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 11 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 12 well | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ’s | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 affair | det |
| 17 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ’s | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mine | case |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 affair | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 settle | punct |
| 21 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ’s | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 settle | obj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 settle | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | the King | disputes | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dispute=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | settle | infinitive | the King not said here | charming | your own way obl:unmarked | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |
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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