The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 75
At last her maid said to her one day, ‘I think that some help could be found, if your majesty would seek it.’
Who acts: I, majesty · What happens: say, think, find, seek · To what, where: help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, majesty), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 maid | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maid | amod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 maid | nmod:poss |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 day | nmod:poss |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 found | mark |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 help | det |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 think | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seek | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 seek | mark |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 23 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seek | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seek | aux |
| 25 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seek | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | day | at queen's last maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | could · passive | some help | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | seek a condition, not said to happen | would | your majesty | help | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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