The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 3

“You are so kind and generous, noble Sheep,” said the Princess, “that I cannot thank you enough, but I must confess that all I see here seems to me so extraordinary that I don’t know what to think of it.”

Who acts: You, Princess, all · What happens: be, say, not thank, confess, see, seem · To what, where: you, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Princess, all), 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	_	5 kind	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 generous	cc
7	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Sheep	punct
9	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Sheep	amod
10	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kind	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Sheep	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thank	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 thank	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 thank	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 thank	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 thank	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 thank	advmod
22	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 thank	obj
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 thank	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 confess	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 confess	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 confess	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 confess	aux
29	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thank	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 seems	mark
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 seems	nsubj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
33	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 all	acl:relcl
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 see	advmod
35	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 confess	advcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 seems	obl
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 extraordinary	advmod
39	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 seems	xcomp
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 know	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 know	nsubj
42	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 know	aux
43	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 know	advmod
44	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 extraordinary	advcl
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 think	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 think	mark
47	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 know	ccomp
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 think	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 thank	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You			kind property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		You not said here				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not thank speech: thank in a quote	can	the Princess = princess	you		enough property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	confess in a quote	must	the Princess = princess				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	see in a quote	present	the Princess = princess		here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	seem in a quote	present	all	the Princess = princess		extraordinary property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the Princess = princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive				of trouble	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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