The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 18
‘If thou wilt do what I tell thee, thou shalt choose among us three,’ said the Princess.
Who acts: thou, I, Princess · What happens: do, tell, choose, say · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 choose | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 choose | nsubj |
| 12 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 choose | aux |
| 13 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 choose | obl |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | I | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | choose | shall | thou | among us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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