The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 26
The King thought to himself, ‘That’s easy enough to promise.
Who acts: King, That · What happens: think, be, promise · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, That), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 easy | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 easy | punct |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 easy | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 easy | cop |
| 10 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | conj |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 easy | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 promise | mark |
| 13 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 easy | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the King | King | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | That | easy, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | to-infinitive | That 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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