The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 93
‘I will do anything that will bring me back to you,’ exclaimed Uraschimataro, looking at her tenderly, but the princess was silent: she knew too well that when he left her she would see his face no more.
Who acts: I, princess, heart · What happens: do, bring back, exclaim, look, be, know · To what, where: anything, me, you, Uraschimataro, princess, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, princess, heart), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anything | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclaimed | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclaimed | punct |
| 15 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 16 | Uraschimataro | Uraschimataro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 exclaimed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 exclaimed | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 tenderly | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tenderly | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 silent | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 silent | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princess | det |
| 25 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 silent | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 silent | cop |
| 27 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 do | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 knew | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 knew | nsubj |
| 30 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 well | advmod |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 knew | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 left | mark |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 left | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 left | nsubj |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 see | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 left | obj |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 see | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 see | aux |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 knew | ccomp |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 face | nmod:poss |
| 42 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 see | obj |
| 43 | no | no | ADV | _ | 44 more | advmod |
| 44 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 see | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bring back | future | me | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | I not said here | Uraschimataro | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent uraschimataro=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | I not said here | at princess's tenderly | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tenderly=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the princess | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know | past | princess | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | leave | past | heart | princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | see | would | princess | heart's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=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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