The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 87
“Really, madam,” said the Prince, “I wish you would leave off mentioning my nose.
Who acts: madam, you · What happens: say, wish, leave off, mention · To what, where: nose · 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 (madam, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 4 madam | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Really | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | aux |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | ccomp |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 leave | compound:prt |
| 18 | mentioning | mention | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 leave | advcl |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nose | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mentioning | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | madam | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave off in a quote | would | you | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mention speech: other in a quote | gerund | you not said here | my nose | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nose=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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