The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 25
“Ha!” said the Princess, “this is very pretty; how do you do it?
Who acts: Princess, this, you · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, this, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pretty | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pretty | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 pretty | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pretty | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 pretty | advmod |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Princess | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · do-support | you | misfortune | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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