The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 92
“Let me have the satisfaction of dying for you, my Princess,” said he.
Who acts: King, satisfaction · What happens: let, have, die, say · To what, where: King, satisfaction · 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, satisfaction), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 satisfaction | det |
| 6 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 dying | mark |
| 8 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 satisfaction | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 dying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Princess | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfaction | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | the satisfaction and my Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | gerund | the satisfaction and my Princess not said here | for you | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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