The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 28
“She is the Princess of the Golden Roof,” answered Trusty John.
Who acts: maid, Princess · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: Princess, Trusty John · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, Princess), 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 Princess | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Princess | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Princess | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Roof | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Roof | det |
| 8 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Roof | amod |
| 9 | Roof | Roof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Princess | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 John | compound |
| 14 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | maid | the Princess | of the Golden Roof | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Princess | Trusty John | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent john=Eventuality |
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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