The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 19
‘But, Princess,’ said he, ‘I dare not take you back to King Merlin’s court.
Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: say, take · To what, where: you · 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 (Princess, I), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dare | advmod |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 court | case |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 court | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | flat |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 21 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 back | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | present | I | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/19/