The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 54
“You are right, Princess,” said Grabugeon, coming forward, “to love such a faithful slave as Patypata; she is of more use to you than I am, I offer you my tongue and my heart most willingly, especially as I wish to make a great name for myself in Goblin Land.”
Who acts: You, Grabugeon · What happens: be, say, come forward, love, offer, wish · To what, where: faithful slave, you, tongue, great name, Goblin Land · 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 (You, Grabugeon), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Princess | punct |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 right | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Grabugeon | Grabugeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 coming | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 love | mark |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 coming | advcl |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 slave | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 slave | det |
| 20 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 slave | amod |
| 21 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 love | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 Patypata | case |
| 23 | Patypata | Patypata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 slave | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 use | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 use | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 use | cop |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 use | case |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 use | nsubj |
| 29 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 use | obl |
| 32 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 34 am | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 am | nsubj |
| 34 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 offer | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 am | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 offer | nsubj |
| 37 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 use | parataxis |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 offer | obj |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 40 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 offer | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 heart | cc |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 heart | nmod:poss |
| 43 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tongue | conj |
| 44 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 45 willingly | advmod |
| 45 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 37 offer | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 wish | punct |
| 47 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 50 wish | advmod |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 50 wish | mark |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 wish | nsubj |
| 50 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 offer | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 make | mark |
| 52 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 wish | xcomp |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 name | det |
| 54 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 name | amod |
| 55 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 make | obj |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 myself | case |
| 57 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 52 make | obl |
| 58 | in | in | ADP | _ | 60 Land | case |
| 59 | Goblin | Goblin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Land | compound |
| 60 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 make | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 62 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | Princess vocative; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Grabugeon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come forward | gerund | Grabugeon not said here | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | to-infinitive | Grabugeon not said here | such faithful slave | as Patypata | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slave=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Grabugeon | you | use property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | offer in a quote | present | Grabugeon | my tongue and my heart | you | willingly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal tongue=Theme | ||
| 7 | wish in a quote | present | Grabugeon | especially property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Grabugeon not said here | a great name | Goblin Land | for Grabugeon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent name=Product for myself=Asset |
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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