The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 61
'This is the princess Desiree,' said she, pretending to have heard nothing, 'and I have the honour to present to you these letters from my liege lord and lady, together with the casket containing the princess' jewels.'
Who acts: This, princess, I, honour, casket · What happens: be, say, pretend, hear, have, present · To what, where: princess, nothing, honour, letters, you, jewels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, princess, I, honour), 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 | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 princess | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 princess | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | Desiree | Desiree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pretending | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pretending | punct |
| 12 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 heard | mark |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 heard | aux |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 pretending | xcomp |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 heard | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 honour | det |
| 23 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 present | mark |
| 25 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 present | obl |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 letters | det |
| 29 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 present | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 lord | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 lord | nmod:poss |
| 32 | liege | liege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lord | compound |
| 33 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 letters | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lady | cc |
| 35 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lord | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 casket | punct |
| 37 | together | together | ADV | _ | 40 casket | advmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 casket | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 casket | det |
| 40 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 41 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 casket | acl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 princess | det |
| 43 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 43 princess | case |
| 45 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 containing | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 casket | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 casket | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pretend | gerund | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive · perfect | princess not said here | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have | present | I | the honour | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | present | to-infinitive | the honour not said here | this letters | you | from my liege lord and lady | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to you=Recipient | ||
| 7 | contain | gerund | the casket not said here | the princess's jewels | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jewel=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 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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