English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 74
“I agree,” said the Elfin King, and rising up he went to a chest from which he took a phial filled with a blood-red liquor.
Who acts: Elfin King, King · What happens: agree, say, rise up, go, take, fill · To what, where: chest, phial · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elfin King, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 agree | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 agree | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 agree | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | compound |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 12 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 went | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rising | compound:prt |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 chest | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 chest | det |
| 18 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 took | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 phial | det |
| 24 | phial | phial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 phial | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 liquor | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 liquor | det |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 red | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 blood | punct |
| 30 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 liquor | amod |
| 31 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present | the Elfin King = king | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Elfin King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rise up | gerund | King not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | King | a chest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | take | past | King | a phial | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent phial=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | fill | participle | a phial not said here | with a red liquor | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with liquor=Instrument |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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