The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 65
‘No, Prince,’ she said; ‘since you are here this island no longer feels a prison.
Who acts: Prince, you, island · What happens: say, be, feel · To what, where: prison · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Prince, you, island), 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 Prince | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 Prince | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 11 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 here | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 here | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 here | nsubj |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 feels | advmod |
| 19 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 island | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 prison | det |
| 21 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feels | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | this island not said here | a prison | long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prison=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 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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