The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 77
“Surely,” replied the Prince; “how could I deceive you?
Who acts: Prince · What happens: reply, deceive · To what, where: you · 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 (Prince), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Surely | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 deceive | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 deceive | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 deceive | advmod |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 deceive | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 deceive | nsubj |
| 13 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 deceive | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | the Prince | surely property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | deceive in a quote | could | the Prince = prince | you | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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