The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 68
“To-day you must go underground and fetch my taxes,” he said to the Prince.
Who acts: Prince, my · What happens: go, fetch, say, tax · To what, where: taxes, Prince · 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, my), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 8 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fetch | cc |
| 10 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 taxes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fetch | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Prince | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | the Prince = prince | day | underground property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | the Prince = prince not said here | my taxes | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | tax in a quote | my | nom tax «possession transitive»: 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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