The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 134
“You have come just in time,” said the Prince, “for I should have been married to-morrow; but I will not have the long-nosed Princess, and you alone can save me.
Who acts: You, Prince · What happens: come, say, marry, not have, nose, save · To what, where: Prince, nosed Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. 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 come | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 time | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 married | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 married | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 married | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 married | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 married | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 married | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 married | aux:pass |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 morrow | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 have | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 have | advmod |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Princess | det |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 nosed | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 long | punct |
| 33 | nosed | nose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 Princess | amod |
| 34 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 save | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 save | cc |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 save | nsubj |
| 38 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 40 save | advmod |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 save | aux |
| 40 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 have | conj |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 save | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | You | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | should · perfect · passive | the Prince = prince | to morrow | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to morrow=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | not have in a quote | future | the Prince = prince | the nosed Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 5 | nose in a quote | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | save in a quote | can | you | the Prince = prince | alone property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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