The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 23
“I took the place of servant here yesterday,” said the Prince.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: take, say · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 servant | case |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 9 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | the Prince = prince | the place of servant | here | yesterday | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 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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