The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 11
‘I consent also,’ said the Queen; ‘so let the banquet be prepared.’
Who acts: I, Queen, banquet · What happens: consent, say, let, be · To what, where: banquet · 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 (I, Queen, banquet), 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 | _ | 3 consent | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 consent | nsubj |
| 3 | consent | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 consent | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 consent | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 consent | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 let | advmod |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 banquet | det |
| 15 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obj |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 17 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 be | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | present | I | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the banquet | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | infinitive | the banquet not said here | prepared property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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