The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 163
‘Is that true?’ asked the King of the Princess.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, ask
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 (that), 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 | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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