The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 38
Princess,” said the Queen, weeping, “what is this that I hear?
Who acts: Queen, I · What happens: say, weep, be, hear · 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 (Queen, 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 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Princess | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weeping | punct |
| 8 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 this | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 this | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 this | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 this | cop |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 weeping | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 hear | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 weeping | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Queen | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | gerund | the Queen not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | present | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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