The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 17
“I thought you would be pleased with me,” said the Princess; “that was all.”
Who acts: I, you, Princess · What happens: think, be, say · 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 (I, you, Princess), 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 | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pleased | cop |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pleased | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 all | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 all | cop |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | you | with me; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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