The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 59
‘And for that very same reason I ought to be able to talk more than you, for I was a Princess,’ replied the Grasshopper.
Who acts: I, Princess · What happens: be, talk, reply · To what, where: more, Grasshopper
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Princess), 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 reason | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 reason | cc |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 reason | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 reason | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 same | advmod |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reason | amod |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 able | nsubj |
| 9 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | aux |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 able | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reason | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 talk | mark |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 talk | obj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 more | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Princess | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Princess | case |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 Princess | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Princess | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Princess | det |
| 23 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 talk | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 replied | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 replied | punct |
| 26 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Grasshopper | det |
| 28 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 replied | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | ought | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | I not said here | more | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | for a Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | a Princess not said here | the Grasshopper | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Topic |
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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