The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 58
‘Ah, Princess!’ said the Queen, ‘don’t keep this poor Percinet in suspense any longer.
Who acts: Princess, Queen · What happens: say, not keep · To what, where: poor Percinet, suspense · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Queen), 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 | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 Princess | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 keep | advmod |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Percinet | nsubj |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Percinet | amod |
| 17 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 suspense | case |
| 19 | suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obl |
| 20 | any | any | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 keep | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not keep | infinitive · do-support | the Queen | poor Percinet | suspense | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent percinet=Theme in suspense=Location |
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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