The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 64
How she does go on about my nose!” said the Prince to himself.
Who acts: Plague, Prince · What happens: go on, say · To what, where: Prince · 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 (Plague, Prince), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 nose | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present · do-support | Plague | about my nose | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about nose=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Prince | Prince | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
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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