The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 23

The maiden blushed and answered: ‘Ah, my lord, it is long since I first beheld your face, but I did not think you had ever seen mine.’

Who acts: maiden, I, you · What happens: blush, answer, be, behold, not think, see · To what, where: face, mine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, I, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blushed	nsubj
3	blushed	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blushed	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
8	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	15 long	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lord	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lord	nmod:poss
11	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Ah	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ah	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 long	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 long	cop
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 blushed	advmod
16	since	since	SCONJ	_	19 beheld	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 beheld	nsubj
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 beheld	advmod
19	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 long	advcl
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beheld	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 think	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 think	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 think	advmod
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 blushed	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 seen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seen	aux
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 seen	advmod
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 think	ccomp
32	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 seen	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blush	past	the maiden				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past	the maiden not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	maiden			long property	tree rules
4	behold	past	I	your face		first property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
5	not think speech: other	past · do-support	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	see	past · perfect	you	mine	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer my=Stimulus

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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