The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 61
“Do you dislike me?” asked the Prince, who was very much vexed at this answer.
Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: dislike, ask, vex · To what, where: Prince, answer · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 4 dislike | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dislike | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dislike | nsubj |
| 4 | dislike | dislike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dislike | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dislike | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dislike | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vexed | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 vexed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 vexed | aux:pass |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 vexed | advmod |
| 16 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Prince | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 answer | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 answer | det |
| 19 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vexed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dislike in a quote | present · do-support | you | the Prince = prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | vex | past · passive | the Prince | this answer | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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