The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 117
'Not so; the maidens I have seen do not please me.
Who acts: I, maidens · What happens: see, do, not please · To what, where: maidens, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, maidens), 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 so | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 maidens | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maidens | det |
| 6 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 so | appos |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | xcomp |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 please | advmod |
| 12 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 please | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 maidens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | the maidens not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | the maidens not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not please | infinitive | the maidens not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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