The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 10
“But you must tell him that I feel honoured by his proposal, and will gladly consent to be Queen of the Beasts.”
Who acts: hare, I · What happens: tell, feel, honour, consent, be, propose · To what, where: hare, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, I), 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 | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 feel | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 proposal | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 13 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 honoured | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 consent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 consent | cc |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 consent | aux |
| 17 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 18 consent | advmod |
| 18 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tell | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 Queen | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Queen | cop |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 consent | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Beasts | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Beasts | det |
| 24 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Queen | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | must | hare | hare | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | honour in a quote | participle | I not said here | by hare's proposal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | consent in a quote | future | hare not said here | gladly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | Queen | of the Beasts | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | propose in a quote | hare | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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