The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 80

‘Madam,’ said Prince Curlicue, ‘I wish to be allowed to restore your beloved Florimond to his natural form, since I cannot forget the tears you shed for him.’

Who acts: Madam, I, you, prince · What happens: say, wish, allow, restore, not forget, shed · To what, where: beloved Florimond, natural form, tears · 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 (Madam, I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	Curlicue	Curlicue	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wish	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 wish	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wish	nsubj
11	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	14 allowed	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 allowed	aux:pass
14	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wish	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 restore	mark
16	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 allowed	xcomp
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Florimond	nmod:poss
18	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Florimond	amod
19	Florimond	Florimond	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 restore	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 form	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 form	nmod:poss
22	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 form	amod
23	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 restore	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 forget	punct
25	since	since	SCONJ	_	29 forget	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 forget	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 forget	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 forget	advmod
29	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 restore	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tears	det
31	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 forget	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 shed	nsubj
33	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tears	acl:relcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Madam				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
4	restore not said to happen	to-infinitive		your beloved Florimond	prince's natural form		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent florimond=Theme to form=Recipient
5	not forget	can	I	the tears			tree rules
6	shed	past	you	the tears not said here		for prince	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
7	form		prince				nom form «communication 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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