The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 78

“My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate.

Who acts: dear Prince, nose, Fairy · What happens: beg, move, cast, not see, have · To what, where: you, way, shadow, plate

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 (dear Prince, nose, 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	_	4 Prince	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Prince	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Prince	amod
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 beg	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Prince	punct
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 beg	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 beg	nsubj
8	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 beg	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 move	mark
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beg	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 more	obl:unmarked
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 move	advmod
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 move	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 casts	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 casts	mark
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 nose	nmod:poss
20	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 casts	nsubj
21	casts	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 beg	advcl
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 shadow	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shadow	det
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 casts	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 see	obj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
27	really	really	ADV	_	30 see	advmod
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shadow	acl:relcl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 see	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 what	acl:relcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 plate	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 plate	nmod:poss
36	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	beg speech: request in a quote	might	My dear Prince		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	move in a quote	to-infinitive	My dear Prince not said here	that way			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	cast in a quote	present	your nose	such shadow			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product
4	not see in a quote	can	the Fairy = fairy	such shadow			tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	the Fairy = fairy			my plate	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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