The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 38
That is the palace of the queen of the fishes, and I think you must confess that the emperor himself has nothing so fine.'
Who acts: That, I, you, emperor · What happens: be, think, confess, have · To what, where: palace, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I, you, emperor), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 palace | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 palace | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fishes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fishes | det |
| 10 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 queen | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 think | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 palace | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 confess | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 confess | aux |
| 17 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 think | ccomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 has | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 emperor | det |
| 20 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 has | nsubj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 emperor | appos |
| 22 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 confess | ccomp |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 has | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 fine | advmod |
| 25 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 nothing | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 palace | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the palace | of the queen of the fishes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | confess | must | you | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | present | the emperor | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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