The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 303
‘Another madman determined to be hanged,’ said the King.
Who acts: madman, King · What happens: determine, hange, say · 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 (madman, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
| 2 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 madman | det |
| 3 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hanged | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hanged | aux:pass |
| 7 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | another madman | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hange | to-infinitive · passive | another madman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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