The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 48
And the princess, who was a wise woman, only said: “Well, go to bed now, for I am sure you must be very tired.”
Who acts: princess, you · What happens: be, say, go · To what, where: wise woman, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 woman | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 woman | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 woman | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 woman | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 17 go | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Well | punct |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 go | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sure | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sure | case |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sure | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sure | cop |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 go | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 tired | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 tired | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 tired | cop |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 tired | advmod |
| 30 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sure | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a wise woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | bed | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the princess = princess | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | must | you | tired property | 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 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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