The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 72
The Count Piro would not dream of asking anything but the hand of the princess.”
Who acts: Count Piro · What happens: not dream, ask · To what, where: anything
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 (Count Piro), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Piro | det |
| 2 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Piro | compound |
| 3 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dream | advmod |
| 6 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 asking | mark |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dream | advcl |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 asking | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hand | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hand | det |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anything | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dream | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream | would | the Count Piro | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the Count Piro not said here | anything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient |
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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