The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 133
I bring a letter from the Princess Helena!”
Who acts: I · What happens: bring · To what, where: letter, Princess Helena
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 (I), 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 | 2 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 letter | det |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bring | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Helena | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Helena | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Helena | compound |
| 8 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 letter | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 bring | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | I | a letter | the Princess Helena | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from helena=Initial_Location |
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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