The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 92
‘I think you must be making fun of me,’ replied the King of the Peacocks.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, make, reply · To what, where: fun, 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, 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 making | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 making | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 making | aux |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fun | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 making | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Peacocks | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Peacocks | det |
| 18 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 King | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | must · progressive | you | fun of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the King of the Peacocks | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: 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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