The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 67
‘Indeed, Princess,’ replied Florimond, ‘it is yourself, but you must have a new name, since the old one does not suit you now.
Who acts: Princess, crutch, you, old one · What happens: reply, be, have, not suit · To what, where: Florimond, yourself, new name, you
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, crutch, you, old one), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 Princess | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Florimond | Florimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 yourself | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 yourself | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 yourself | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 yourself | cop |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 replied | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 name | amod |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 suit | punct |
| 23 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 29 suit | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 one | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 one | amod |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 suit | nsubj |
| 27 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 suit | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 suit | advmod |
| 29 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 suit | obj |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 suit | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Princess | Florimond | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent florimond=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | crutch | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | must | you | a new name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not suit | present · do-support | the old one | you | now | tree rules |
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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