The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 109

And the Kinglet answered: ‘When I am King of the Low Countries, I will make you lady-in-waiting to the Queen, for you are as good as you are beautiful.

Who acts: Kinglet, I, King, you · What happens: answer, be, make, wait · To what, where: King, lady, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kinglet, I, King, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kinglet	det
3	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
7	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 make	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 King	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 King	cop
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 make	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Countries	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Countries	det
13	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Countries	amod
14	Countries	Country	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 King	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 waiting	punct
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 waiting	mark
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 in	punct
24	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 lady	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Queen	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Queen	det
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 waiting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 good	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 good	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 good	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 good	cop
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 good	advmod
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 make	parataxis
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 beautiful	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 beautiful	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 beautiful	cop
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 good	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Kinglet				tree rules
2	is a	present	I	King		of the Low Countries	tree rules
3	make	future	King	lady	you		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary lady=Product
4	wait	gerund				to the Queen	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	you			good property	tree rules
6	is	present	you			beautiful property	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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