The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 128
‘You know what price my father has promised to pay for our secret?’
Who acts: You, father · What happens: know, price, promise, pay · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, father), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 price | nsubj |
| 5 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 promised | aux |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 know | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pay | mark |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 secret | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 secret | nmod:poss |
| 14 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | price | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | present · perfect | my father | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | my father not said here | for our secret | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for secret=Theme |
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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