The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 75
‘Do you think,’ the Prince Gnome was saying, ‘do you think that I would not break my chains if I could?
Who acts: you, Prince Gnome, I · What happens: think, ', say, not break · To what, where: chains · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Prince Gnome, 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’ | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gnome | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gnome | compound |
| 9 | Gnome | Gnome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | aux |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ’ | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 break | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 break | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 break | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 break | advmod |
| 21 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 think | ccomp |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chains | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 break | obj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 could | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 break | advcl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ' | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | the Prince Gnome | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not break | would | I | my chains | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient |
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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