The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 49
“Oh! not very dangerous work, I fancy,” said the King’s son.
Who acts: dangerous work · What happens: fancy, say · To what, where: son · 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 (dangerous work), 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 | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 work | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 dangerous | advmod |
| 6 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 work | amod |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fancy | nsubj |
| 10 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy in a quote | dangerous work and fancy = work | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | dangerous work and fancy | the King's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=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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