The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 147

‘Do you like blue eyes?’ said the Princess; but Désiré thought it was a good opportunity to find out what was in her heart, so he did not answer.

Who acts: you, Désiré, death · What happens: like, say, think, be, find out, not answer · To what, where: blue eyes, Princess, good opportunity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Désiré, death), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyes	amod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
14	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 opportunity	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opportunity	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 opportunity	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 opportunity	amod
20	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 opportunity	acl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 find	compound:prt
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 find	obj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 what	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 heart	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heart	nmod:poss
28	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 answer	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	34 answer	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 answer	nsubj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 answer	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 answer	advmod
34	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 find	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	present · do-support	you	blue eyes	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot eye=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Princess	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Désiré		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	death	a good opportunity	tree rules
5	find out	to-infinitive	Désiré not said here	a good opportunity	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	Désiré		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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