The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 55
“Ah, true son of your father,” cried the queen; “if only I might embrace you and call you son!
Who acts: true son · What happens: cry, embrace, call · To what, where: queen, you · 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 (true son), 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 son | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 true | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 embrace | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 embrace | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 embrace | mark |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 embrace | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 embrace | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 embrace | aux |
| 20 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 embrace | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 call | cc |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 embrace | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 call | obj |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 call | vocative |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | true son of your father | the queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | ||||
| 2 | embrace a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | might | true son of your father = son | you | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | infinitive | true son of your father = son not said here | you | son vocative | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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