The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 18
‘Never while I live!’ answered the princess, and, not knowing where it would be safest, placed it under her feet.
Who acts: I, it · What happens: not live, answer, not know, be, place · To what, where: princess, fan, feet
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), 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 | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 live | advmod |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 safest | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 safest | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knowing | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 knowing | advmod |
| 15 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 safest | csubj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 safest | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 safest | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 safest | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 safest | cop |
| 20 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 safest | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 placed | obj |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 placed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | present | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | would | it | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | place | past | fan | princess's feet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under foot=Destination |
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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