The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 3

‘As you could not possibly guess how much I like you, Sir Fanfaronade, I am obliged to tell you plainly that, since I saw you enter the town on your beautiful prancing horse, I have been sorry that you came to speak for another instead of for yourself.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not guess, like, oblige, tell, see, enter · To what, where: much, I, that, you, town · 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, you), 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 guess	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 could	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 could	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 guess	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 guess	advmod
6	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	7 guess	advmod
7	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 like	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 guess	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 like	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Sir	punct
14	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 guess	vocative
15	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Sir	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 obliged	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 obliged	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 obliged	aux:pass
19	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 guess	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 obliged	xcomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	21 tell	advmod
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 tell	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guess	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 enter	nsubj
30	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 saw	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enter	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	37 horse	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 horse	nmod:poss
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 horse	amod
36	prancing	prancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 horse	compound
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enter	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sorry	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 sorry	nsubj
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 sorry	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 sorry	cop
42	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guess	conj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 came	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 came	nsubj
45	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 sorry	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 speak	mark
47	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 came	xcomp
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 another	case
49	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	47 speak	obl
50	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	53 yourself	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	50 instead	fixed
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 yourself	case
53	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 speak	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not guess	could				Sir vocative; possibly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	like	present	I	much			tree rules
3	oblige	present · passive		I			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		that	you	plainly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient that=Topic
5	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	enter	present	you	the town		on your beautiful prancing horse	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination
7	is	present · perfect	I			sorry property	tree rules
8	come	past	you				tree rules
9	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here			for another; instead yourself	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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