The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 226
You can imagine the Queen’s delight at hearing the name, and when the little man stepped in shortly afterward and asked: “Now, my lady Queen, what’s my name?” she asked first: “Is your name Conrad?”
Who acts: You, delight, little man, lady, Queen · What happens: imagine, hear, step in, ask, be, delight · To what, where: delight, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, delight, little man, lady), 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 | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 delight | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Queen | case |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagine | obj |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 hearing | mark |
| 9 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 delight | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hearing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stepped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stepped | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 stepped | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stepped | nsubj |
| 18 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 stepped | compound:prt |
| 20 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 21 afterward | advmod |
| 21 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 18 stepped | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asked | cc |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stepped | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 asked | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 asked | punct |
| 26 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 asked | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Now | punct |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lady | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 asked | nsubj |
| 30 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 lady | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 name | punct |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 name | nsubj |
| 33 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 name | cop |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 name | nmod:poss |
| 35 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lady | appos |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 name | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 name | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 asked | nsubj |
| 39 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 asked | ccomp |
| 40 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 asked | advmod |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
| 42 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
| 43 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 name | cop |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 name | nmod:poss |
| 45 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 asked | obl |
| 46 | Conrad | Conrad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 name | appos |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 46 Conrad | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | You | the Queen's delight | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot delight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the Queen's delight not said here | the name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | step in | past | the little man | afterward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the little man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | my lady | my name | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | my lady | now | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | your name | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | delight | the Queen | nom delight «feeling 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 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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