The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 24
“I fancy I see a shepherdess near that tree; bid her come hither.”
Who acts: Queen · What happens: see, bid, come · To what, where: shepherdess, tree, Felicia
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 I | flat |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shepherdess | det |
| 7 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shepherdess | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 bid | punct |
| 12 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bid | obj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bid | xcomp |
| 15 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | the Queen = queen | a shepherdess | that tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherdess=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | bid in a quote | past | the Queen = queen not said here | Felicia | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | the Queen = queen not said here | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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