The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 99

“Ah! dear child,” said the Queen, “the way you speak assures me that, in spite of your humble upbringing, you are indeed a real princess, and I can save you from being treated in such a way again.”

Who acts: dear child, you, way · What happens: say, speak, assure, be, save, treat · To what, where: way, that, dear child, spite, real princess, you · 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 (dear child, you, way), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 child	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 assures	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 assures	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 assures	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 speak	nsubj
16	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 way	acl:relcl
17	assures	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 assures	obj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 assures	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spite	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 spite	case
22	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 assures	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 upbringing	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 upbringing	nmod:poss
25	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 upbringing	amod
26	upbringing	upbringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spite	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 princess	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 princess	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 princess	cop
30	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	33 princess	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 princess	det
32	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 princess	amod
33	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 assures	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 save	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 save	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 save	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 save	aux
38	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 assures	parataxis
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 save	obj
40	from	from	SCONJ	_	42 treated	mark
41	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 treated	aux:pass
42	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 save	advcl
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 way	case
44	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	46 way	det:predet
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 treated	obl
47	again	again	ADV	_	46 way	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dear child					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other in a quote	present	you	the way not said here				tree rules
3	assure in a quote	present	the way	that	dear child = child	spite of your humble upbringing		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition i=Beneficiary that=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	you	a real princess			indeed property	tree rules
5	save in a quote	can	dear child = child	you				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	treat in a quote	gerund · passive	dear child = child not said here			such way		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»
7	spite in a quote			your humble upbringing				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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