The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 104

‘Ay, ay! you have always thought that you were so pretty and dainty that no one was equal to you,’ said Halvor, ‘but you should just see the eldest Princess whom I set free.

Who acts: you, dainty, Halvor, I · What happens: think, be, say, see, set · To what, where: you, eldest Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dainty, Halvor, I), 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	_	9 thought	punct
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	9 thought	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
4	ay	ay	INTJ	_	2 Ay	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 thought	advmod
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 said	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 pretty	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 pretty	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pretty	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 pretty	advmod
14	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	9 thought	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dainty	cc
16	dainty	dainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pretty	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 equal	nsubj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 equal	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 equal	cop
21	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dainty	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 equal	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 see	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 see	advmod
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Princess	det
36	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 Princess	amod
37	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	obj
38	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 set	obj
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 set	nsubj
40	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 Princess	acl:relcl
41	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 set	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · perfect	you			always property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	you			pretty property	tree rules
3	is	past	dainty		you	equal property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Halvor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	should	you	the eldest Princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
6	set	past	I	the eldest Princess		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient whom=Result

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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