The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 1
“You are getting careless,” said the princess; “I shall go and talk to them myself.”
Who acts: You, princess · What happens: get, say, go, talk · To what, where: princess, them · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, princess), 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 | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 getting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | aux |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 getting | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 talk | cc |
| 17 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 talk | obl |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 talk | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · progressive | You | careless property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | shall | the princess = princess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | talk in a quote | infinitive | the princess = princess not said here | the princess = princess | them = they | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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