The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 36
“Has not the master often said that I seemed born to be a prince?”
Who acts: master · What happens: have, not say, seem, bear, be · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master), 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 Has | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 said | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 master | det |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Has | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 prince | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prince | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Has | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not say speech: ask in a quote | past | the master | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | past | the master = master | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | participle | the master = master not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | the master = master not said here | a prince | tree rules |
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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