The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 102
'You had better stay here then,' said the princess.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, stay, say · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | xcomp |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stay | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | You not said here | here | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | 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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