The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 92
'Perhaps,' said she, 'your Majesty may now be convinced that I am a fairy and speak the truth.
Who acts: snail, Majesty, I · What happens: say, be, speak · To what, where: fairy, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snail, Majesty, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perhaps | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 convinced | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 convinced | punct |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 convinced | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 convinced | aux |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 convinced | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 convinced | cop |
| 14 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 fairy | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fairy | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fairy | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fairy | det |
| 19 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 convinced | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 speak | cc |
| 21 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 truth | det |
| 23 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speak | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | snail | perhaps property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | may | your Majesty | now | convinced property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present | snail not said here | the truth | tree rules |
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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