The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 45
‘Yes, I will,’ said the prince, for he saw the red silk thread on the old woman’s finger.
Who acts: prince · What happens: say, see · To what, where: prince, red silk thread, finger · 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 (prince), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 will | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 will | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thread | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thread | amod |
| 17 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thread | compound |
| 18 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 finger | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 finger | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 woman | case |
| 24 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | future | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past | prince | the red silk thread | the old woman's finger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thread=Stimulus |
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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