The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 71
“Oh, your Majesty, you must not think that,” replied the fox; “and do not let the question of a dowry trouble you.
Who acts: you, fox · What happens: not think, reply, not let, question · To what, where: that, question, dowry trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fox), 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 | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 think | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 think | advmod |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 think | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 let | advmod |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 question | det |
| 24 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trouble | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 trouble | det |
| 27 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trouble | compound |
| 28 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 question | nmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | must | you | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the fox not said here | the question of a dowry trouble | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent question=Recipient you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | question in a quote | a dowry trouble | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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