The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 227
Shall I go and tell the King of the Peacocks that you are here?
Who acts: I, Peacocks · What happens: go, tell, be · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Peacocks), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Peacocks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Peacocks | det |
| 10 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 here | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 here | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 Peacocks | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | the King | of the Peacocks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | present | the Peacocks | here property | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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