The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 60
Thinking he might belong to the household of the Duchess, she said:
Who acts: duchess, truth · What happens: think, belong, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (duchess, truth), 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 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 belong | aux |
| 4 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Thinking | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 household | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 household | det |
| 7 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belong | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Duchess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duchess | det |
| 10 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 household | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thinking | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | duchess not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | belong | might | truth | to the household of the Duchess | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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