The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 130
The Queen kissed her, and said: “Well, to please you, let me see what I can do for this cross Bruno.”
Who acts: Queen · What happens: kiss, say, please, let, see, do · To what, where: madam, you, Queen · 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 (Queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 please | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 please | punct |
| 10 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 please | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Well | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 please | mark |
| 13 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 please | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 please | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 do | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 cross | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 cross | det |
| 25 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obl |
| 26 | Bruno | Bruno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cross | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 please | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the Queen | madam | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | please in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | the Queen = queen | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | the Queen = queen not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | can | the Queen = queen | for this cross | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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