The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 39
‘Ah, my lord,’ she said, ‘you know nothing of me but what you have seen in the mirror; and I, who cannot even name my parents, learn that you are a king’s son.’
Who acts: Serpentine, you, I · What happens: say, know, see, not name, learn, be · To what, where: nothing, mirror, parents, son · 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 (Serpentine, you, I), 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 lord | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 lord | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 what | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 nothing | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 mirror | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mirror | det |
| 24 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 I | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 I | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 learn | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 name | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 name | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 name | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 name | advmod |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 name | advmod |
| 33 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 learn | advcl |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 parents | nmod:poss |
| 35 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 name | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 learn | punct |
| 37 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 son | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 son | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 son | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 king | det |
| 42 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 son | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 king | case |
| 44 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 learn | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Serpentine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | present · perfect | you | the mirror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not name | can | my parents | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | learn | present | I | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | you | a king's son | tree rules |
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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