The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 141

‘No, thank you, I will try myself,’ said the Princess, and she went away to the fireplace and put some ashes on the ring.

Who acts: I, Princess · What happens: thank, try, say, go away, put · To what, where: you, myself, fireplace, ashes, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 thank	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 try	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 try	aux
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thank	conj
10	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 try	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 fireplace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fireplace	det
23	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	conj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 ashes	det
27	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 put	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 ring	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ring	det
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	try	future	I	myself				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the Princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go away	past	Princess			the fireplace	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fireplace=Initial_Location
5	put	infinitive	Princess not said here	some ashes		the ring		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme on ring=Destination

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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