The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 89
You,’ says he to the youngest, ‘needn’t fear, you’ll recover your princess all in good time, and you and she will be as happy as the day is long.
Who acts: You · What happens: say, recover, be · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 youngest | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 youngest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youngest | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 need | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 need | punct |
| 11 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 youngest | conj |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fear | advmod |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 need | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 recover | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 recover | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 recover | aux |
| 17 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 princess | nmod:poss |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recover | obj |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 time | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recover | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 happy | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 happy | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 happy | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 happy | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 happy | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 happy | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 happy | cop |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 happy | advmod |
| 32 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 long | csubj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 day | det |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 happy | obl |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 long | cop |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | recover | future | you | your princess | time | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | future | you | day | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | long 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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