The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 15

‘Most certainly I would,’ replied the Prince.

Who acts: Most · What happens: reply · To what, where: Prince

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most), 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	_	2 Most	punct
2	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 replied	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 would	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 would	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Most	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Most	the Prince					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic

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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