The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 100

The simple-minded shepherd, who believed his story implicitly, asked him, ‘Do you think the king of the country would give his daughter to me?’

Who acts: minded shepherd, you, king · What happens: believe, ask, think, give · To what, where: story, Simon, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (minded shepherd, you, 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	5 shepherd	det
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minded	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 simple	punct
4	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shepherd	amod
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 believed	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 believed	nsubj
8	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shepherd	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 story	nmod:poss
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 believed	obj
11	implicitly	implicitly	ADV	_	8 believed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shepherd	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
17	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 think	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 think	nsubj
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 country	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 country	det
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 king	nmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 think	ccomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nmod:poss
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	iobj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the minded shepherd	shepherd's story		implicitly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	the minded shepherd		Simon		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	present · do-support	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	give	would	the king of the country		Simon's daughter	to me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to i=Recipient

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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