The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 20
“Father,” replied the Princess, “I will never marry the son of the minister.”
Who acts: Father · What happens: reply, not marry · To what, where: Princess, son · 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 (Father), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 marry | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 marry | advmod |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 minister | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 minister | det |
| 18 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Father | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not marry in a quote | future | Father | the son of the minister | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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