The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 32
Soon after this the false bride said to the Prince: “Dearest husband, I pray you grant me a favor.”
Who acts: false bride, Prince · What happens: say, pray, grant · To what, where: Prince, Dearest husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false bride, Prince), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bride | det |
| 5 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bride | amod |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 husband | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 husband | punct |
| 13 | Dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 husband | amod |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grant | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pray | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pray | nsubj |
| 17 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 husband | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 grant | nsubj |
| 19 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 grant | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 favor | det |
| 22 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grant | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the false bride | the Prince | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | the false bride = bride | Dearest husband not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant in a quote | present | the Prince = prince | Dearest husband | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal favor=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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