The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 119
“Why, how is this?” cried the young captain; “would you marry this charming princess to such a man as that?”
Who acts: this, you · What happens: be, cry, marry, charm · To what, where: this, young captain, charming princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 cried | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 this | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 this | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 this | cop |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 this | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 this | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 captain | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 captain | amod |
| 12 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 marry | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 princess | det |
| 19 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 princess | amod |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marry | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 man | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marry | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 man | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | this | the young captain | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Topic | ||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | would | you | this charming princess | to such man as that | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent princess=Patient to man=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | charm in a quote | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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