The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 5
“Do us the honour to dismount, your Majesty,” said the fox, bowing low.
Who acts: fox · What happens: do, dismount, say, bow · To what, where: honour, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 honour | det |
| 5 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 dismount | mark |
| 7 | dismount | dismount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 honour | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Majesty | punct |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honour | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fox | det |
| 15 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bowing | punct |
| 17 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 bowing | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | the honour and your Majesty | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dismount in a quote | to-infinitive | the honour and your Majesty not said here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bow | gerund | the fox not said here | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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