The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 53
If the princess will honour me for a few minutes, you will soon see how it is done.”
Who acts: princess, you · What happens: honour, see, do · To what, where: me, dance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 honour | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honour | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 honour | aux |
| 5 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 honour | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minutes | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minutes | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minutes | amod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 honour | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 honour | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 done | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour a condition, not said to happen | future | the princess | me | minute | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | future | you | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | present · passive | dance | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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