The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 86

'Do you know,' said Becasigue, when they were alone, 'I am certain that the lady we saw is the maid of honour to the Princess Desiree, whom I met at the palace.

Who acts: you, Becasigue, prince, I, we, lady · What happens: know, say, be, see, meet · To what, where: lady, maid, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Becasigue, prince, 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	_	4 know	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 alone	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 alone	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 alone	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 alone	cop
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 Becasigue	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 certain	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 certain	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 certain	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 certain	cop
18	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 maid	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lady	det
21	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 maid	nsubj
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lady	acl:relcl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 maid	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 maid	det
26	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 certain	ccomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 honour	case
28	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 maid	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 Desiree	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Desiree	det
31	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Desiree	compound
32	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 honour	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 met	punct
34	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 met	obj
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 met	nsubj
36	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 maid	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 palace	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 palace	det
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 met	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Becasigue				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	prince			alone property	tree rules
4	is	present	I			certain property	tree rules
5	see	past	we	the lady not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
6	is a	present	the lady	the maid		of honour to the Princess Desiree	tree rules
7	meet	past	I	the maid	the palace		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-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: «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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