The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 62
With the first sunbeam the princess said to the prince, ‘Look round; do you see anything behind us?’
Who acts: princess, you · What happens: say, look round, see · To what, where: prince, anything · 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 sunbeam | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sunbeam | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sunbeam | amod |
| 4 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 13 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 Look | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 anything | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | the prince | with the first sunbeam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient | |||
| 2 | look round | infinitive | the princess not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | present · do-support | you | anything | behind us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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