The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 52
Believe me, the Princess Mayblossom was far too well brought up to think of falling in love with an Ambassador.’
Who acts: you · What happens: believe, bring up, think, fall · To what, where: me, Princess Mayblossom, love
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), 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 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Believe | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mayblossom | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mayblossom | compound |
| 6 | Mayblossom | Mayblossom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 too | advmod |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 well | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 brought | advmod |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Believe | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 brought | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brought | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 falling | mark |
| 16 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 think | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 falling | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Ambassador | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Ambassador | det |
| 21 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 falling | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bring up | past · passive | the Princess Mayblossom | well property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fall | gerund | love | with a Ambassador | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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