The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 35
Prince,” cried she, “do you think I jest with you?
Who acts: Prince, you, I · What happens: cry, think, jest · To what, where: Nourgiham · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, you, I), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prince | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prince | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 jest | nsubj |
| 12 | jest | jest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 jest | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Prince | Nourgiham | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jest speech: other | present | I | with you | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-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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