The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 76

‘Here I am, Princess, as much as ever at your service,’ said he, ‘though really you are not very kind to me.’

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: be, say, not be, service · To what, where: me · 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, you, your), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 said	parataxis
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Princess	punct
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Here	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 much	punct
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Princess	appos
10	as	as	ADP	_	14 service	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 service	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 service	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 service	nmod:poss
14	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 he	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 kind	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 kind	mark
22	really	really	ADV	_	27 kind	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 kind	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 kind	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 kind	advmod
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 kind	advmod
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 he	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 kind	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	you	me	kind property	tree rules
4	service		your			nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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