The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 15
‘Never mind,’ he thought to himself; ‘if the lady appears to me a third time, I will do as she tells me.’
Who acts: you, Michael, lady, I · What happens: not mind, think, appear, do, tell · To what, where: Michael, me · 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, Michael, lady, I), 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 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 thought | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 appears | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appears | nsubj |
| 15 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 appears | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appears | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appears | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | parataxis |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 tells | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tells | nsubj |
| 27 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | conj |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 tells | iobj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Michael | Michael | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | appear a condition, not said to happen | present | the lady | me | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | do | future | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | lady | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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