The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 42
‘Thou shalt have my thanks for setting my Princess free,’ he said, when the youth came into the palace with her, and was then about to go away.
Who acts: Thou, thanks, King, youth · What happens: have, set, say, come, be · To what, where: thanks, Princess, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Thou, thanks, King, youth), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 setting | mark |
| 8 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 thanks | acl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 setting | obj |
| 11 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 setting | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 palace | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 go | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 go | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | cop |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 about | advmod |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 came | conj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | Thou | my thanks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set | gerund | my thanks not said here | my Princess | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient princess=Result | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the youth | the palace with Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the youth not said here | about, away, go property | 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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