The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 12

‘I assure you, Madam,’ said the Princess, ‘that I had nothing to do with it and am quite willing that you shall be declared Queen of Beauty

Who acts: I, Princess · What happens: assure, say, have, do, be, declare · To what, where: you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. 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	9 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 assure	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Madam	punct
6	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 assure	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 assure	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 assure	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 nothing	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 willing	cc
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 willing	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 willing	advmod
25	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 had	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 declared	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 declared	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 declared	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 declared	aux:pass
30	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 willing	advcl
31	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 declared	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Beauty	case
33	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Queen	nmod

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	assure	present	I		you	Madam vocative	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	I	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here		with insult	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	I not said here			willing property	tree rules
6	declare speech: other	shall · passive		you			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme queen=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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