More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 115
"Yes," said the princess, "we are fair ladies, for we carry fire in our bosoms."
Who acts: princess, we, our · What happens: say, be, carry, bosom · To what, where: fair ladies, fire, bosoms · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, we, our), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ladies | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ladies | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ladies | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ladies | cop |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ladies | amod |
| 13 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 princess | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 carry | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bosoms | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bosoms | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bosoms | bosom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the princess and fair ladies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | we | fair ladies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | present | we | fire | our bosoms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fire=Value in bosom=Location | |||
| 4 | bosom in a quote | our | nom bosom «state 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: «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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