The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 10
‘If you please, sire,’ said the Princess, dropping a curtsey.
Who acts: you, Princess · What happens: sire, say, drop · To what, where: curtsey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 sire | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sire | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 sire | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sire | punct |
| 6 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sire | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sire | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropping | punct |
| 13 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 curtsey | det |
| 15 | curtsey | curtsey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropping | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sire a condition, not said to happen | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drop | gerund | the Princess not said here | a curtsey | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtsey=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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