The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 3
‘Your majesty,’ asked one of the courtiers, ‘shall I give the maiden its weight in gold?’
Who acts: majesty, I · What happens: ask, give · To what, where: one, maiden weight, gold · 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 (majesty, 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 | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 asked | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 courtiers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 courtiers | det |
| 10 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 weight | det |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weight | amod |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 weight | nmod:poss |
| 19 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 weight | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Your majesty | one of the courtiers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | shall | I | majesty's maiden weight | gold | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
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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