The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 104
“Now, say if you are not very much obliged to me.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, not oblige · To what, where: you, crystal prison · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 say | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 obliged | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 obliged | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 obliged | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 obliged | advmod |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 obliged | advmod |
| 11 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 say | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 obliged | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not oblige a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | you | the crystal prison = prison | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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