The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 1
“How could I hope that you would come back to me King’s son?” she said.
Who acts: I, you, she · What happens: hope, come back, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, she), 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 hope | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hope | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hope | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hope | nsubj |
| 5 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hope | ccomp |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | vocative |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | could | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come back in a quote | would | you | me | King's son vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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