The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 93
I will only say it if I may have the princess for my wife.”
Who acts: I · What happens: say, have · To what, where: death, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | future | I | death | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | may | I | the princess | for my wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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