The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 12

“Sire,” said the Princess, “to show that we constantly hoped for your success, and that the sight of you is as welcome to me as the sky with its most beautiful stars.”

Who acts: Sire, we, sight · What happens: say, show, hope, be, sight · To what, where: Sire, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, we, sight), 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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 show	mark
11	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 hoped	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hoped	nsubj
14	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	15 hoped	advmod
15	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 show	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 success	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 success	nmod:poss
18	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hoped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 welcome	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 welcome	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 welcome	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sight	det
23	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 welcome	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 sight	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 welcome	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 welcome	advmod
28	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 show	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 welcome	obl
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 sky	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sky	det
33	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 welcome	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	38 stars	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 stars	nmod:poss
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 beautiful	advmod
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stars	amod
38	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 welcome	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sire				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show in a quote	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hope in a quote	past	we			for your success; constantly property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for success=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the sight of you		Sire	as the sky; with Sire's beautiful stars; welcome property	tree rules
5	sight in a quote			you			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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