The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 41
Princess,” he answered, “who would not be sorrowful who was ordered to do such a terrible thing as I am?
Who acts: gay · What happens: answer, not be, order, do · To what, where: Princess, terrible thing
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 (gay), 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 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Princess | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Princess | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sorrowful | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sorrowful | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sorrowful | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sorrowful | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sorrowful | cop |
| 12 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 ordered | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ordered | aux:pass |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sorrowful | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 thing | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 am | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 am | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | gay | Princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | would | sorrowful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | order | past · passive | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | such terrible thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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