The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 50
“The poor boy is right,” said the Fairy; “I was forgetting.
Who acts: poor boy, Fairy · What happens: be, say, forget · 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 (poor boy, Fairy), 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 | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 right | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fairy | det |
| 11 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgetting | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgetting | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 forgetting | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgetting | aux |
| 16 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the poor boy | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | past · progressive | the Fairy = fairy | 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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