The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 62
Tell me, Princess, what is it that you wish for most?
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be, wish · To what, where: Princess, enemy · 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 (you), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 Princess | parataxis |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 it | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 what | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 wish | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 most | case |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 wish | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | Princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient princess=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | enemy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wish | present | you | for most | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for most=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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