The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 43
‘I am a Princess,’ she answered, ‘and am seeking for my twelve brothers.
Who acts: I, mother · What happens: be, answer, seek · To what, where: Princess, ‘ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother), 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 Princess | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Princess | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Princess | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ‘ | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seeking | cc |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seeking | aux |
| 14 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 brothers | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 brothers | nummod |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seeking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | mother | ‘ | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ‘=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | seek | present · progressive | mother not said here | for my twelve brothers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for brother=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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