The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 61
The Fairy was very much flattered by this compliment, and said, calling to her servants:
Who acts: compliment · What happens: flatter, say, call · To what, where: Fairy, servants · 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 (compliment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flattered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flattered | aux:pass |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 flattered | advmod |
| 6 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 compliment | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 compliment | det |
| 9 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flattered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flattered | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 calling | punct |
| 14 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 servants | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 servants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 calling | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 flattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatter | past · passive | this compliment | the Fairy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this compliment not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | gerund | this compliment not said here | fairy's servants | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
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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