The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 97
‘I have come,’ replied Martin’s mother--‘and your Majesty must not be angry with me--I have come a-wooing.’
Who acts: I, mother · What happens: come, reply, not be · To what, where: wooing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | conj |
| 8 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Martin | case |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 angry | nsubj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Majesty | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | conj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 angry | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 angry | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 angry | cop |
| 19 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 angry | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 come | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wooing | det |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 a | punct |
| 28 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | I not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | must | Martin's mother and ‘ and your Majesty | with me; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | I | a wooing | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wooing=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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