The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 45
Advise me, then, my dear subjects, what had I better do to recover my daughter, Fanfaronade, and the other things.’
Who acts: you, dear subjects · What happens: advise, have, do, recover · To what, where: me, other things, daughter
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, dear subjects), 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 | Advise | advise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Advise | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 subjects | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 subjects | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 subjects | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 subjects | amod |
| 8 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 do | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 subjects | acl:relcl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 better | nsubj |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 had | ccomp |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Advise | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 recover | mark |
| 16 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 do | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 recover | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fanfaronade | punct |
| 20 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 things | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 things | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 things | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 things | amod |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 do | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Advise | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Advise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | imperative | you not said here | me | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | my dear subjects | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | my dear subjects | the other things | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | recover | to-infinitive | my dear subjects not said here | my daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
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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