The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 118
‘I am the prince, and can drive where I please.’
Who acts: I, prince · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prince), 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 prince | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 prince | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prince | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drive | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drive | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drive | aux |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prince | acl:relcl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 drive | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 where | nsubj |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 drive | discourse |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 5 prince | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | can | the prince not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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/pg5615/32/118/