The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 12
‘Alas! you will not be able to get me,’ said the King’s daughter.
Who acts: you, daughter · What happens: not be, get, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter), 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 | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 8 able | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 able | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 able | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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