The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 6
At last his councillors said, ‘The King _must_ marry again, so that we may have a queen.’
Who acts: last councillors, King _, we · What happens: say, marry, have · To what, where: queen · 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 (last councillors, King _, we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 councillors | amod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 4 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 _ | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 _ | compound |
| 10 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 marry | aux |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 marry | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 have | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 marry | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 queen | det |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King's last councillors | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry | must | the King _ | again | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | may | we | a queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
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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