The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 145
‘I assure you the Princess is quite well, and I have never seen her equal for beauty.
Who acts: I, Princess · What happens: assure, be, not see · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Princess), 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 assure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 assure | nsubj |
| 3 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 assure | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 well | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 well | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 assure | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 seen | advmod |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 assure | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 equal | nmod:poss |
| 17 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seen | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 beauty | case |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | present | I | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Princess | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | present · perfect | I | for beauty; equal property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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