The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 42
What kind of a thing is that, master?” said the Prince, making himself look as stupid as an ass; “I should like to see that.”
Who acts: master, Prince, I · What happens: be, make, look, like, see · To what, where: Prince, that · 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 (master, Prince, 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thing | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 said | mark |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 master | punct |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 master | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 master | 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 | _ | 16 making | punct |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 making | obj |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 making | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 stupid | advmod |
| 20 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 look | xcomp |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 ass | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 ass | det |
| 23 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stupid | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 like | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 like | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 like | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 like | aux |
| 28 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 like | xcomp |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 like | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert in a quote | present | master | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | gerund | master not said here | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | Prince not said here | stupid property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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