The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 10
‘If you speak truth, my lord,’ replied the Princess, ‘restore to me the liberty you have deprived me of.
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, reply, restore, deprive · To what, where: truth, Princess, liberty, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 speak | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | advcl |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lord | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 truth | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 restore | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 restore | punct |
| 16 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 restore | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 liberty | det |
| 20 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restore | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 deprived | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 deprived | aux |
| 23 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 liberty | acl:relcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 deprived | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 deprived | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present | you | truth and my lord | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | |||||
| 3 | restore | infinitive | the liberty | me | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | deprive | present · perfect | you | me | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source |
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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