The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 125
“Madam,” said he, “the fame of your beauty had reached me, but I had not dared to expect such loveliness.
Who acts: Madam · What happens: say, reach, not dare, not expect · To what, where: king, such loveliness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam), 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 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fame | det |
| 10 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 beauty | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fame | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reached | aux |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dared | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 dared | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 dared | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dared | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 dared | advmod |
| 22 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 expect | mark |
| 24 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 dared | xcomp |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 loveliness | amod |
| 26 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 expect | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reach in a quote | past · perfect · passive | king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not dare in a quote | past · perfect | Madam | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not expect in a quote | to-infinitive | Madam not said here | such loveliness | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loveliness=Theme |
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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