The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 41
My dear daughter Mayblossom is lost: whether she has been stolen away or has simply disappeared I cannot tell.
Who acts: I · What happens: lose, steal away, disappear, not tell · To what, where: dear daughter, daughter · 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), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | Mayblossom | Mayblossom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | appos |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux:pass |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 stolen | punct |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 stolen | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stolen | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stolen | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stolen | aux:pass |
| 12 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lost | parataxis |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 stolen | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 disappeared | cc |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 disappeared | aux |
| 16 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 17 disappeared | advmod |
| 17 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stolen | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 tell | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 tell | advmod |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 disappeared | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | My dear daughter | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | steal away | present · perfect · passive | daughter | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disappear | present · perfect | simply property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | can | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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