The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 81
‘That is very amiable of you, dear Prince,’ said the Fairy, ‘but it is reserved for another person to do that.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, say, reserve, do · To what, where: Fairy, that · 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 (That), 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 amiable | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 amiable | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 amiable | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 amiable | advmod |
| 5 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 amiable | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Prince | punct |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Prince | amod |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 amiable | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 amiable | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 amiable | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairy | det |
| 15 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reserved | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 reserved | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 reserved | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reserved | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 reserved | aux:pass |
| 21 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 person | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 person | det |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reserved | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 reserved | advcl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | of you; dear Prince obl; amiable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic | |||||
| 3 | reserve | present · passive | Fairy | for another person | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for person=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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