The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 22
“Because I love the gardener’s son,” answered the Princess.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: love, answer · To what, where: 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 (Princess), 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 | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 love | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 love | nsubj |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gardener | det |
| 6 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 gardener | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | the Princess = princess | the gardener's son | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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