The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 24

‘Princess,’ she said, ‘your regrets are so piteous that I have come to offer you the choice of goodness or beauty.

Who acts: Princess, I, your · What happens: say, ‘, be, come, offer, regret · To what, where: Princess, regrets, choice, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Princess, I, your), 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 Princess	punct
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piteous	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Princess	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ‘	punct
8	‘	‘	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 regrets	nmod:poss
10	regrets	regret	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ‘	obj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 piteous	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 piteous	advmod
13	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 piteous	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 offer	mark
19	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 offer	iobj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 choice	det
22	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 offer	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 goodness	case
24	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 choice	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 beauty	cc
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 goodness	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 piteous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Princess	Princess not said here			tree rules
2	‘	infinitive		your regrets			tree rules
3	is	present	Princess			piteous property	tree rules
4	come	present · perfect	I				tree rules
5	offer	to-infinitive	I not said here	the choice of goodness or beauty	you		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal choice=Theme
6	regret		your				nom regret «feeling intransitive»: 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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