The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 35
“Am not I as good a prince as any other?” he asked himself, as he proudly paced up and down the room.
Who acts: Prince, Am · What happens: ask, pace up · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Am), 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 | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 2 | Am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 good | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 good | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 other | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 asked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 paced | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 paced | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 paced | nsubj |
| 20 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 21 paced | advmod |
| 21 | paced | pace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 asked | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 paced | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 room | cc |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 paced | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Prince | Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pace up | participle | Am = a.m. | proudly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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