The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 59
Prince Darling fancied that Celia would think herself only too happy if he offered to make her a great queen, but she said fearlessly:
Who acts: Prince Darling, Celia, Darling · What happens: fancy, think, offer, make, say · To what, where: Celia, great queen · 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 (Prince Darling, Celia, Darling), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Darling | compound |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 3 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 5 | Celia | Celia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 think | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fancied | advcl |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 think | obj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 happy | advmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 happy | advmod |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 think | ccomp |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 offered | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 offered | nsubj |
| 14 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 offered | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 queen | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 queen | amod |
| 20 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancied | conj |
| 25 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 24 said | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | Prince Darling | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | would | Celia | Celia | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | offer a condition, not said to happen | past | Darling | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Darling not said here | a great queen | Celia | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary queen=Product | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Celia | fearlessly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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