The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 59
‘But, little sister,’ said he, ‘where shall we find the King of the Peacocks?’
Who acts: little sister, we · What happens: say, find · 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 (little sister, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sister | amod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 find | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Peacocks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Peacocks | det |
| 20 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 King | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | little sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | shall | we | the King of the Peacocks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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 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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