The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 32
“Might it not be,” said the old lady, “that the impostor has called your real son by his own name?
Who acts: majesty, old lady, own name, impostor · What happens: not be, say, call, name · To what, where: impostor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, old lady, own name, impostor), 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 | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 2 | Might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 be | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 be | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lady | amod |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 called | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 impostor | det |
| 16 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 son | amod |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 name | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 name | amod |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be in a quote | might | majesty | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the old lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present · perfect · passive | impostor's own name | the impostor | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | impostor | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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