The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 47
‘Sire, we are all very sorry to see you so sorry.
Who acts: Sire · What happens: be, see · To what, where: you
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 (Sire), 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 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 sorry | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 sorry | advmod |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sorry | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 sorry | advmod |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 see | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sire | all, sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Sire not said here | you | sorry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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