The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 72
“Well to be sure,” said the Princess, “that’s how you amuse yourselves, is it?
Who acts: Princess, you · What happens: be, say, amuse · To what, where: yourselves, garret · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, you), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sure | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Well | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | 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 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’s | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’s | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 ’s | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 amuse | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 amuse | nsubj |
| 17 | amuse | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ’s | advcl |
| 18 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 amuse | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 it | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 it | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ’s | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | amuse in a quote | present | you | yourselves | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourselves=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | garret | tree rules |
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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