The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 15
‘My son, go and lift your father’s arm up on the bench,’ said the queen to one of the princes, for she easily knew the king again, although she was afraid to make herself known to him.
Who acts: son, retainer · What happens: go, lift, say, know, be, make · To what, where: arm, bench, queen, one, king, retainer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, retainer), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lift | cc |
| 7 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arm | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 lift | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bench | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bench | det |
| 15 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 queen | det |
| 20 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 said | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 princes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princes | det |
| 25 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 knew | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 knew | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 30 knew | advmod |
| 30 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knew | obj |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 knew | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 afraid | punct |
| 35 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 38 afraid | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 afraid | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 afraid | cop |
| 38 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 knew | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 make | mark |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 afraid | xcomp |
| 41 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 make | xcomp |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 known | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | My son | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift | infinitive | My son not said here | your father's arm | the bench | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme on bench=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | one of the princes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | retainer | the king | again | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | is | past | retainer | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | retainer not said here | retainer | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | know | participle | retainer not said here | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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