The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 129
“Ah! madam,” said the Princess, “I am so happy that I should like everybody else to be happy too.”
Who acts: madam · What happens: say, be, like · To what, where: everybody · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 happy | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 happy | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 happy | advmod |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 like | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | aux |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 happy | advcl |
| 20 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 like | obj |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 everybody | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 happy | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 happy | cop |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 like | advcl |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 like | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | madam | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | should | madam | everybody | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot everybody=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | madam not said here | happy property | tree rules |
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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