The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 68

Remember that you are a king, and that it would be laughable to see you trying to please a shepherdess, who ought to be only too glad to be one of your slaves.

Who acts: you, it, shepherdess · What happens: remember, be, see, try, please · To what, where: king, you, shepherdess, one · 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, it, shepherdess), 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	Remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 king	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 king	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 king	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Remember	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughable	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughable	cc
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 laughable	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughable	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 laughable	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 laughable	cop
13	laughable	laughable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Remember	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 laughable	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 see	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 please	mark
19	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 trying	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shepherdess	det
21	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 please	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 glad	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 glad	nsubj
24	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 glad	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	29 glad	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 glad	cop
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 glad	advmod
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 glad	advmod
29	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shepherdess	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	32 one	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 one	cop
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 glad	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 slaves	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 slaves	nmod:poss
35	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	you	a king		tree rules
3	is	would	it		laughable property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive		you		tree rules
5	try	gerund	you not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	please not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a shepherdess		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shepherdess=Experiencer
7	is	ought	a shepherdess		glad property	tree rules
8	is a	to-infinitive	a shepherdess not said here	one	of your slaves	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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