The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 5
“No, dearest girl,” answered he; “I am come to complete your happiness and my own.
Who acts: dearest girl · What happens: answer, come, complete · To what, where: Friedlin, happiness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dearest girl), 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 girl | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 girl | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 complete | mark |
| 16 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | xcomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 complete | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 own | cc |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 own | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 complete | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | dearest girl | Friedlin | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | dearest girl = girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | complete in a quote | to-infinitive | dearest girl = girl not said here | your happiness | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Eventuality |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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