The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 18
However, I think I have settled her pretensions, and I hope you will be very happy and enjoy the freedom I have won for you.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, settle, hope, be, enjoy, win · To what, where: pretensions, freedom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 settled | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 settled | aux |
| 7 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pretensions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pretensions | pretension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 settled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hope | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hope | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hope | nsubj |
| 13 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 happy | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 happy | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 happy | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 happy | advmod |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hope | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 enjoy | cc |
| 20 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 hope | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 freedom | det |
| 22 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enjoy | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 won | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 won | aux |
| 25 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 freedom | acl:relcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 won | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | however property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | settle | present · perfect | I | Dwarf's pretensions | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pretension=Location | ||||
| 3 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is | future | you | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enjoy | infinitive | I not said here | the freedom | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer freedom=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | win | present · perfect | I | the freedom not said here | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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