The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 36
The youngest pair went last; and says the princess to the prince, ‘I’m sure the two princes don’t mean any good to you.
Who acts: youngest pair, I, two princes · What happens: go, say, be, not mean · To what, where: princess, prince, good · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest pair, I, two princes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pair | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 pair | amod |
| 3 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 says | cc |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 prince | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 princess | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’m | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’m | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ’m | nsubj |
| 17 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | conj |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ’m | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princes | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 princes | nummod |
| 21 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mean | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 mean | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 mean | advmod |
| 24 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | ccomp |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 good | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mean | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 good | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the youngest pair | last property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the princess | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Topic to prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | be | present | I | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not mean | present · do-support | the two princes | any good | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic |
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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