The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 54
‘Let her be brought before me,’ said the King.
Who acts: cook, King · What happens: let, bring, say · To what, where: cook · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | 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 | let | infinitive | cook | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive · passive | cook not said here | before me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before i=Destination | ||||
| 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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