The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 82

“My noble father-in-law,” answered the prince, “I am ignorant of all spells and arts.

Who acts: noble father · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: prince, ignorant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble father), 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
3	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 father	amod
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 law	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ignorant	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ignorant	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ignorant	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ignorant	cop
18	ignorant	ignorant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 spells	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 spells	det
21	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ignorant	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 arts	cc
23	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spells	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	My noble father in law		the prince				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	is a in a quote	present	My noble father in law = father	ignorant				of all spells and arts	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: «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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