The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 54
For though you see what I am now, I was the daughter of a great king.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, be · To what, where: daughter
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, I), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 daughter | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 am | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 am | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 daughter | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 daughter | det |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 king | amod |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | I | the daughter | of a great king | 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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