The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 34

‘I want the princess here who is in the shape of a white dove,’ said the prince.

Who acts: I · What happens: want, be, say · To what, where: princess, shape, prince · 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 (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	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 want	advmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 shape	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shape	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 shape	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shape	det
11	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 dove	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dove	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dove	amod
15	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shape	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 prince	det
20	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	the princess	here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme
2	is	present			the shape	of a white dove	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		the prince			tree rules

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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