The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 82
“You wish to leave me, Princess,” said he; “it is my unhappy fate--you are not to blame.
Who acts: You, King, love · What happens: wish, leave, say, be, not be · To what, where: Princess, King, unhappy fate · 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, King, love), 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 wish | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Princess | punct |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wish | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fate | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fate | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fate | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fate | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fate | nmod:poss |
| 18 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fate | amod |
| 19 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 blame | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 blame | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 blame | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 blame | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 blame | mark |
| 25 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fate | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | You | Princess | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | King | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | love | my unhappy fate | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | you | blame property | tree rules |
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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