The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 104
‘Now, call three times on the emperor of the fishes, and beg him to restore you the ring that the princess dropped.
Who acts: you, princess · What happens: call, beg, restore, drop · To what, where: Ciccu, you, ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess), 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 call | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 call | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 emperor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fishes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fishes | det |
| 12 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 emperor | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beg | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beg | cc |
| 15 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 beg | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 restore | mark |
| 18 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 beg | xcomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 restore | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ring | det |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 restore | obj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 dropped | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dropped | nsubj |
| 25 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ring | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | imperative | you not said here | now; time | on the emperor of the fishes | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | infinitive | you not said here | Ciccu | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | restore not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | the princess | the ring not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
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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