The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 84
‘Alas!’ said the Princess, ‘if only I could find something for you to eat, I should not mind being hungry myself.’
Who acts: Princess, I, you · What happens: say, find, eat, not mind, be · To what, where: something · 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 (Princess, I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 find | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 something | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mind | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 mind | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 mind | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 mind | advmod |
| 24 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 hungry | cop |
| 26 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mind | xcomp |
| 27 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 26 hungry | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | I | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | you | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not mind | should | I | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | gerund | I not said here | myself obl:unmarked; hungry property | tree rules |
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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