The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 2

‘May it please your majesty,’ she said, ‘I have brought you a ball of silk of the colour you asked for, as no one else has any in the town.’

Who acts: court, Catherine, I, you, one · What happens: please, say, bring, ask, have · To what, where: majesty, ball, you, colour, any, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, Catherine, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 please	punct
2	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 please	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 please	nsubj
4	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 majesty	nmod:poss
6	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 please	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 please	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 please	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 brought	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 brought	aux
15	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 brought	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ball	det
18	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 silk	case
20	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ball	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 colour	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 colour	det
23	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ball	nmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 asked	nsubj
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 colour	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	25 asked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 has	mark
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	nsubj
31	else	else	ADV	_	30 one	advmod
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 brought	conj
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 has	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 town	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 any	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	please	may	court	your majesty			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Catherine				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring	present · perfect	I	a ball of silk of the colour	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination ball=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	you	the colour not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colour=Recipient
5	have	present	no one	any		the town	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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