Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 122
"Pray tell me," said the prince, "who is that princess of whom you have been talking! and where lies the garden of paradise?"
Who acts: Pray, prince, you, garden · What happens: tell, say, be, talk, lie · To what, where: prince, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pray, prince, you, garden), 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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 princess | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 princess | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 princess | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 princess | cop |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 princess | nmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 talking | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 talking | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 talking | aux |
| 21 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 whom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lies | cc |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 lies | advmod |
| 25 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lies | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 paradise | case |
| 29 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 garden | nmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Pray | the prince = prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | talk in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lie in a quote | present | the garden of paradise | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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