The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 19
Do you think the Prince will ever look at such a fright as you?’
Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: think, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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, Prince), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 look | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | aux |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 look | advmod |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 fright | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 fright | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fright | det |
| 12 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | future | the Prince | ever | as you; at such fright | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fright=Theme |
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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