The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 14
“Madam,” said the good King, “since you are a fairy you no doubt know all my wishes.
Who acts: Madam, you, my · What happens: say, be, know, wish · To what, where: good King, wishes · 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 (Madam, you, my), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 King | amod |
| 8 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 11 | since | since | ADP | _ | 15 fairy | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 fairy | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fairy | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fairy | det |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 doubt | det |
| 18 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 wishes | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 know | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Madam | the good King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | since a fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | infinitive | you | my wishes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wish=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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