The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 46

I will ask them if they have seen any princess who is as clever and as handsome as I am.”

Who acts: I, lands, princess · What happens: ask, see, be · To what, where: lands, princess

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 (I, lands, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ask	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ask	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 seen	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ask	ccomp
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 clever	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 clever	cop
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 clever	case
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 princess	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 handsome	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 handsome	advmod
17	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clever	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 am	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 am	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 clever	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	future	I		lands = land		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	lands = land	any princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3	is	present	any princess			clever property	tree rules
4	be		any princess not said here				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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