The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 51
‘Bless me,’ says the young prince, ‘what will we do?
Who acts: we · What happens: bless, say, do · To what, where: me, young prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 2 | Bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bless | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prince | amod |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the young prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | future | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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