The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 32
‘Since you are so well pleased with my work, said the prince, ‘you will, no doubt, be willing to give me a little pleasure too, and give me something that I have taken a fancy to.’
Who acts: you, doubt, my · What happens: be, say, give, take, work · To what, where: prince, little pleasure, me, something, fancy to · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, doubt, my), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 pleased | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 pleased | advmod |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 work | nmod:poss |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleased | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleased | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 willing | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 willing | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 will | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 willing | aux |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 doubt | punct |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 doubt | det |
| 21 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 willing | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 doubt | punct |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 willing | cop |
| 24 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 willing | xcomp |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 pleasure | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pleasure | amod |
| 30 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 give | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 give | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 give | cc |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 give | conj |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 give | obj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 taken | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 taken | aux |
| 40 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 something | acl:relcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 to | det |
| 42 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 to | amod |
| 43 | to | to | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 taken | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | with my work; pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | future | no doubt | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | no doubt not said here | a little pleasure | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | infinitive | no doubt not said here | something | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 6 | take | present · perfect · passive | a fancy to | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme to=Destination | |||||
| 7 | work | my | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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