The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 92
But the prince replied, ‘If it is the princess, we must go quickly.
Who acts: prince, promise, we · What happens: reply, be, go · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, promise, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 princess | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 princess | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 princess | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 princess | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | promise | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | must | we | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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