The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 36
‘Go and find the Ambassador Fanfaronade, who is doubtless asleep in some corner, and tell him the sad news.’
Who acts: you, Ambassador Fanfaronade · What happens: go, find, be, tell · To what, where: Ambassador Fanfaronade, corner, sad news, Fanfaronade · 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, Ambassador Fanfaronade), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 find | cc |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fanfaronade | det |
| 6 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fanfaronade | compound |
| 7 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asleep | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 asleep | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asleep | cop |
| 11 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 asleep | amod |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Fanfaronade | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 corner | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 corner | det |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asleep | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tell | cc |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 news | det |
| 21 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 news | amod |
| 22 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | you not said here | the Ambassador Fanfaronade | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fanfaronade=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Ambassador Fanfaronade | some corner | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the sad news | Fanfaronade | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient news=Topic |
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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