The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 58
Then the King in a great hurry sent for his pages and said:
Who acts: King · What happens: send, say, page · To what, where: great hurry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hurry | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hurry | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hurry | amod |
| 7 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hurry | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 pages | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pages | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | a great hurry not said here | for King's pages | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King in a great hurry | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | page | King | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=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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