The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 49
“Ah! madam,” she answered simply, “if I have your friendship I shall do very well.”
Who acts: madam · What happens: answer, have, do · To what, where: friendship · 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 | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 8 answered | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | advcl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 well | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 do | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | madam | simply property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | madam | your friendship | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | shall | madam | well property | vn act-114-1 «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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