The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 12
'I would rather be wife to you,' answered the princess.
Who acts: I, wife · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: wife, you, princess
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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 | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | aux |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 wife | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wife | cop |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | I | wife | you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | the princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/12/