The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 14
‘Do you know,’ asked the King, ‘what you have to promise?’
Who acts: you · What happens: know, ask, have, promise · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 have | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 promise | mark |
| 16 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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