The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 74
Fanfaronade,’ said the Princess, sitting up and rubbing her eyes, ‘is it possible that when I am here with you you can want anything else?
Who acts: Fanfaronade, Princess, ‘, I, you · What happens: say, sit up, rub, be, want · To what, where: eyes, anything · 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 (Fanfaronade, Princess, ‘, 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 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fanfaronade | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fanfaronade | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sitting | punct |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sitting | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rubbing | cc |
| 11 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sitting | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rubbing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 possible | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possible | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 possible | cop |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 possible | nsubj |
| 18 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sitting | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 want | mark |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 here | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 here | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 here | cop |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 want | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 here | obl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 want | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 want | aux |
| 28 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 possible | csubj |
| 29 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 want | obj |
| 30 | else | else | ADV | _ | 29 anything | advmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fanfaronade | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sit up | gerund | the Princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rub | gerund | the Princess not said here | Princess's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | ‘ | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | with you; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | want | can | you | anything | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anything=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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