The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 53
‘I believe that this must open that little golden door in the middle,’ said the Prince to himself.
Who acts: I, this, Prince · What happens: believe, open, say · To what, where: little golden door, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 open | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 open | aux |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 door | mark |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 door | amod |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 door | amod |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 open | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 said | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | open | must | this | little golden door in the middle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | prince | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer 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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