The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 76
His Imperial Majesty spoke often to me, and I answered; but neither of us could understand a word.
Who acts: Imperial Majesty, I, neither · What happens: speak, answer, understand · To what, where: me, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Imperial Majesty, I, neither), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3360): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Majesty | amod |
| 3 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 understand | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 understand | cc |
| 14 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 understand | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 neither | nmod |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 understand | aux |
| 18 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoke | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 understand | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Emperor's Imperial Majesty | me | often property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | I | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | understand | could | neither | a word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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