The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 27
‘Will your Highness please to taste any of them?’
Who acts: Highness · What happens: taste · To what, where: any
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 (Highness), 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 | _ | 7 taste | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 taste | aux |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taste | nsubj |
| 5 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 taste | discourse |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 taste | mark |
| 7 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 taste | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 any | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 taste | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | future | your Highness | any | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme any=Attribute |
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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