The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 92
“Ah, Prince,” she said, “can I believe that you really love me so much?”
Who acts: meeting, you · What happens: say, believe, love · To what, where: meeting · 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 (meeting, you), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ah | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 believe | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 love | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nsubj |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 love | advmod |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 believe | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 love | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | meeting | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | can | meeting | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | you | meeting | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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