The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 41
The King said ‘Yes,’ and gave Jack a written promise to that effect.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, give, write · To what, where: written promise, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 5 Yes | punct |
| 5 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yes | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yes | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 promise | det |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 promise | amod |
| 13 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 effect | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 effect | det |
| 16 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 promise | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | 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 NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the King not said here | a written promise | Jack | to that effect | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient promise=Theme | ||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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