The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 53
The King said, ‘I will bring the dead to life again,’ and he opened the door of the room and called them both out.
Who acts: King, I · What happens: say, bring, open, call · To what, where: dead, life, door, candles · 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 (King, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dead | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bring | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 opened | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 opened | nsubj |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 room | det |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 door | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 called | cc |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 opened | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 called | obj |
| 27 | both | both | ADV | _ | 28 out | advmod |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 called | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | future | I | the dead | life | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to life=Destination | ||
| 3 | open | past | King | the door of the room | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | past | King not said here | candles = candle | out property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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