More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 8

"Father!" he said, for it was the Prince himself, "I have made my choice, and here is my bride, the loveliest girl in all the land, and the sweetest as well!"

Who acts: Father, thrice, bride · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: choice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, thrice, bride), 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	_	2 Father	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 Prince	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Prince	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Prince	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 Prince	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 choice	nmod:poss
20	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 here	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 here	cc
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 made	advmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 here	cop
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bride	nmod:poss
26	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 here	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 girl	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
29	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 girl	amod
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 land	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 land	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 land	det
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 girl	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sweetest	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sweetest	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sweetest	det
38	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 said	ccomp
39	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	38 sweetest	advmod
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 as	fixed
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 as	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 sweetest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	thrice		for the Prince; Father nmod	tree rules
3	make in a quote	present · perfect	Father	my choice	the loveliest girl in all land obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Product
4	is in a quote	present	my bride		here property	tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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