The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 38
‘No, dear friend, don’t cut, it is I!’ said the Princess again; so he had found her the second time.
Who acts: friend, Princess, Dapplegrim · What happens: not cut, be, say, find · To what, where: I, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (friend, Princess, Dapplegrim), 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 | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 cut | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 No | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 cut | advmod |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 I | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 I | cop |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 Princess | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 found | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cut | infinitive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | friend | I | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | find | past · perfect | Dapplegrim | Princess | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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