The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 67
A little after this the princess said again to the prince, ‘Look round; do you see anything behind us?’
Who acts: little 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 (little 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | amod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 little | nmod |
| 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 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 14 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 Look | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 anything | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little princess | the prince | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient | |||
| 2 | look round | infinitive | the little 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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