The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 62
“Yes, madam,” replied the Prince, in an ecstacy of joy; “what can I do better, and with greater pleasure?
Who acts: madam · What happens: reply, do · To what, where: Prince, ecstacy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam), 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 madam | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ecstacy | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ecstacy | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ecstacy | det |
| 13 | ecstacy | ecstacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 joy | case |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ecstacy | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 do | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pleasure | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pleasure | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 pleasure | case |
| 26 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 pleasure | amod |
| 27 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | parataxis |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | madam | the Prince | a ecstacy of joy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | madam | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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