The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 18

Fanfaronade asked the Princess where she would like to go, but she only answered that she did not care where she went as long as he was with her.

Who acts: Fanfaronade, Princess · What happens: ask, like, go, answer, not care, be · To what, where: Princess · 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 (Fanfaronade, 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	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 like	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Princess	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	nsubj
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 answered	advmod
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 care	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 care	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 care	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 care	advmod
20	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	ccomp
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 went	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 care	advcl
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 went	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 her	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 her	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 her	cop
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 long	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Fanfaronade	the Princess		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
2	like	would	Princess			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past	Princess			tree rules
5	not care	past · do-support	Princess			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	go	past	Princess		long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	Fanfaronade		with carbuncle	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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