The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 10
“I will not say it till the princess is my wife.”
Who acts: chance, princess · What happens: not say, be · To what, where: wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance, 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 | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wife | cop |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | future | chance | wood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the princess | till my wife | 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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