The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 24
“Does the proud girl wish to make me her slave?” he said to himself.
Who acts: king · What happens: do, make, say · To what, where: proud girl wish, slave, king · 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 (king), 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 Does | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wish | det |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wish | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wish | compound |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Does | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wish | acl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 slave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | the proud girl wish | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | dream's slave | king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary slave=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | king | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient 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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