The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 60
‘Tell me what I must do in order to win the heart of the princess, and no matter how hard it is I will do it.
Who acts: you, I, heart · What happens: tell, do, win, be · To what, where: me, order, heart, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, 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 | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 win | mark |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 win | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 do | cc |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 hard | advmod |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 matter | amod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hard | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hard | cop |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tell | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | must | I | order | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | I not said here | the heart of the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | present | heart | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | future | I | no matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/60/