The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 16
“Ah! madam,” the King of the Gold Mines said to her “how is this?
Who acts: King · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Princess, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (King), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Mines | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mines | det |
| 11 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mines | compound |
| 12 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 this | punct |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 this | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 this | cop |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 said | nsubj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the King of the Gold Mines | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules |
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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