The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 45
Then she said: “The Princess must see this, she has such a fancy for gold things that she will buy up all you have.”
Who acts: thing, Princess, gold things, you · What happens: say, see, have, buy up · To what, where: this, fancy, all · 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 (thing, Princess, gold things, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | conj |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 fancy | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fancy | det |
| 16 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fancy | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 buy | nsubj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 buy | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 buy | aux |
| 23 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 things | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 buy | compound:prt |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 buy | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 all | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | thing | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | must | the Princess | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | thing | such fancy | for gold things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | |||
| 4 | buy up in a quote | future | gold things | all | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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