The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 16
‘Yes, sire,’ answered she, ‘it is for myself alone, but I shall be most happy to let you taste some of it.
Who acts: sire, I, you · What happens: answer, be, let, taste · To what, where: castle, you, some
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sire, 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 sire | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 myself | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 myself | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 myself | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 myself | cop |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 myself | case |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 answered | obl |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 happy | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 happy | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 happy | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 happy | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happy | cop |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 happy | advmod |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 let | mark |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happy | xcomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 let | obj |
| 26 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 let | xcomp |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 taste | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 some | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | sire | castle | alone property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | sire | for myself | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | taste | infinitive | you not said here | some | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme some=Attribute |
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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