The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 6
The Ambassador thought he must be dreaming, and could hardly believe what the lovely Princess said.
Who acts: Ambassador, lovely Princess · What happens: think, dream, believe, say · 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 (Ambassador, lovely Princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ambassador | det |
| 2 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dreaming | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dreaming | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dreaming | aux |
| 7 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 believe | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | aux |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 12 believe | advmod |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 dreaming | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 said | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Princess | amod |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Ambassador | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dream | must · progressive | Ambassador | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | believe | could | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the lovely Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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