The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 152
“Indeed, I hope so, my sweet shepherdess,” cried the Prince, who was at that moment restored to his natural shape.
Who acts: I, Prince · What happens: hope, cry, be · 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 (I, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 hope | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hope | nsubj |
| 5 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shepherdess | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shepherdess | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shepherdess | amod |
| 10 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shepherdess | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shepherdess | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hope | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 restored | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 restored | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 restored | cop |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | obl |
| 22 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 shape | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shape | nmod:poss |
| 25 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shape | amod |
| 26 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | I | indeed property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the Prince | moment | to prince's natural shape; restore 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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