The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 48
‘For,’ said he, ‘I have got a wife, and he who finds an old key again does not require a new one.’
Who acts: King, I, old key · What happens: say, get, find, not require · To what, where: wife, new one · 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, I, old key), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 finds | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 finds | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 finds | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 finds | nsubj |
| 18 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 key | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 key | amod |
| 21 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 require | nsubj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 key | advmod |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 require | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 require | advmod |
| 25 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 finds | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | amod |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 require | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 finds | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | I | a wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | present | King | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not require | present · do-support | a old key | a new one | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Precondition |
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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