The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 35
'Great queen,' said the crab, 'I am here to tell you that the desire of your heart will soon be granted.
Who acts: Great queen, I · What happens: say, be, tell, grant, desire · To what, where: crab, you, desire, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great queen, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crab | det |
| 8 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 here | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 here | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 granted | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 desire | det |
| 19 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 desire | nmod |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 granted | aux |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 granted | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 granted | aux:pass |
| 26 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tell | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Great queen | the crab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crab=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | grant | future · passive | the desire of your heart | soon property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | desire | your heart | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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