The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 116
'How can I find the Princess Bella-Flor when I have never even seen her?' thought he. '
Who acts: I · What happens: find, not see, think · To what, where: Bella Flor, Princess, Flor
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 find | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 find | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Flor | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Flor | nsubj |
| 8 | Bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Flor | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flor | punct |
| 10 | Flor | Flor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 seen | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 thought | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | can | I | the Bella Flor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flor=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not see | present · perfect | I | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | I not said here | Flor | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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