The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 25
‘That cannot possibly be,’ replied the King; ‘how do you mean to prove that?’
Who acts: King, you · What happens: not be, reply, mean, prove · To what, where: That · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you), 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 | _ | 6 be | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 be | obl |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 be | advmod |
| 5 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 6 be | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 be | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 be | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 mean | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mean | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 prove | mark |
| 19 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 mean | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 prove | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not can | can | That | possibly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | prove not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | that | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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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