The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 27
‘Tell his majesty I am ready to do his bidding, but since my birth no ray of light has fallen upon my face.
Who acts: you, I, ray, King · What happens: tell, be, do, fall, bid, ray · To what, where: majesty, bidding, face, light · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, ray, King), 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 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ready | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | cop |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ready | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fallen | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 fallen | cc |
| 14 | since | since | ADP | _ | 16 birth | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 birth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fallen | obl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 ray | det |
| 18 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fallen | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 light | case |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ray | nmod |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fallen | aux |
| 22 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Tell | advcl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 face | nmod:poss |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fallen | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | King's majesty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | King's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | fall | present · perfect | no ray of light | my face | since my birth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location | |||
| 5 | bid | King | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | ray | light | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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