The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 16
“Prince,” she said, turning to him, “you see these needles?
Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: say, turn, see · To what, where: prince, needles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Prince, you), 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 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | _ | 8 turning | punct |
| 8 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turning | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turning | advcl |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 needles | det |
| 16 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | Prince not said here | prince | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | you | this needles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer needle=Stimulus |
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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