The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 57

“I am delighted,” said he to the Queen, “that, as you are to be my mother-in-law, you should see the little house in which your Bellissima will live with me.

Who acts: Dwarf, Queen, Bellissima · What happens: be, say, see, live · To what, where: Queen, mother, law, little house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, Queen, Bellissima), 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 delighted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 delighted	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Queen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 that	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 that	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 Queen	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 are	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 that	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	22 mother	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 mother	cop
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 are	nsubj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 law	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 law	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 in	punct
26	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 law	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 house	amod
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 live	obl
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Bellissima	nmod:poss
37	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 live	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 live	aux
39	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 house	acl:relcl
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 live	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Dwarf				delighted property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Dwarf		the Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient
3	does in a quote	present	the Queen = queen					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		my mother		law		tree rules
5	see in a quote	should	the Queen = queen	the little house				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
6	live in a quote	future	your Bellissima			the little house	with Dwarf	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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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