The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 28
“I trust you absolutely,” cried the King, “and I will do whatever you tell me; but if you have seen my Princess I beg of you to tell me how she is and what is happening to her.
Who acts: King, you, Princess · What happens: trust, cry, do, tell, see, beg · To what, where: you, whatever, King, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, Princess), 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 | _ | 3 trust | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 trust | nsubj |
| 3 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 trust | obj |
| 5 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 3 trust | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trust | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trust | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 “ | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 King | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 “ | conj |
| 17 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 beg | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 beg | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 seen | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 beg | advcl |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 beg | nsubj |
| 30 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 beg | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 tell | mark |
| 34 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 beg | advcl |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 tell | iobj |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 what | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 what | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 what | cop |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 what | cc |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 happening | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 happening | aux |
| 42 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 tell | ccomp |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 her | case |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 happening | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust in a quote | present | the King = king | you | absolutely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | the King = king | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | you | the King = king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | you | my Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the King = king | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the King = king not said here | the King = king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | happen in a quote | present · progressive | Princess | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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