The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 104
“For,” they said, “he is a good and just man, and we shall once more enjoy peace and prosperity.”
Who acts: kingdoms, lord, we · What happens: say, be, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdoms, lord, we), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 good | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 good | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 man | cc |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 man | advmod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 good | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 peace | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 peace | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 peace | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 peace | aux |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 enjoy | advmod |
| 22 | enjoy | enjoy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 peace | amod |
| 23 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 prosperity | cc |
| 25 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 peace | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | kingdoms = kingdom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | lord | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | peace in a quote | shall | we | 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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