The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 115
‘Your Royal Highness knows well enough,’ answered Michael.
Who acts: Royal Highness · What happens: know, answer · To what, where: Michael
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Royal Highness), 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 | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Highness | compound |
| 4 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 knows | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knows | parataxis |
| 11 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Your Royal Highness | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Michael | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent michael=Eventuality |
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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