The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 47
‘You may not regret me, Princess,’ he said sadly, ‘for I fear that you do not love me well enough; but I foresee that you will more than once regret that you left this fairy palace where we have been so happy.’
Who acts: You, King, I, regret, we · What happens: not regret, say, fear, not love, foresee, leave · To what, where: me, fairy palace · 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 (You, King, I, regret), 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 | _ | 5 regret | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 regret | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 regret | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 regret | advmod |
| 5 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 regret | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Princess | punct |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 regret | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 regret | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 regret | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fear | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 fear | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 fear | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fear | nsubj |
| 18 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 love | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 love | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 love | advmod |
| 23 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fear | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 love | obj |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 love | advmod |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 foresee | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 foresee | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 foresee | nsubj |
| 30 | foresee | foresee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 will | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 will | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 foresee | advcl |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 will | advmod |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 regret | case |
| 36 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 37 regret | case |
| 37 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 more | obl |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 left | nsubj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 left | nsubj |
| 40 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 regret | acl:relcl |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 palace | det |
| 42 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 palace | amod |
| 43 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 left | obj |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 happy | advmod |
| 45 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 happy | nsubj |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 happy | aux |
| 47 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 happy | cop |
| 48 | so | so | ADV | _ | 49 happy | advmod |
| 49 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 palace | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not regret | may | You | me | Princess vocative | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | sadly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not love | present · do-support | you | me | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | foresee | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | leave | past | regret | this fairy palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | present · perfect | we | happy property | tree rules |
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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