The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 48
The princess now said to him, ‘At the marriage feast you may eat what you please, but you must not drink anything whatever, for if you do that you will forget me.’
Who acts: princess, you · What happens: say, eat, not drink, do, forget · To what, where: marriage, marriage feast, anything, me · 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 (princess, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 9 | At | at | ADP | _ | 12 feast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feast | det |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feast | compound |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 what | nsubj |
| 18 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 16 what | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drink | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 drink | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 drink | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 drink | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 drink | advmod |
| 24 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 eat | conj |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 drink | obj |
| 26 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 drink | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 forget | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 forget | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 do | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 forget | advcl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 forget | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 forget | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 forget | aux |
| 35 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 drink | conj |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 forget | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | marriage | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | eat | may | you | the marriage feast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not drink | must | you | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | forget | future | you | me | 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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