The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 36
‘Why should you imagine that there are princesses here flying about in the shape of white doves?
Who acts: you, princesses · What happens: imagine, be, fly
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, princesses), 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 | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 imagine | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 imagine | nsubj |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 are | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 flying | advcl |
| 9 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 are | advmod |
| 11 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 imagine | ccomp |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 shape | case |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 shape | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shape | det |
| 15 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 doves | case |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 doves | amod |
| 18 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shape | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | should | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | does | present | princesses | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | you not said here | about the shape of white doves | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about shape=Location |
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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