The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 39
The Prince replied, ‘I have heard so much of the beauty and kindness of the Dragon’s Mother, and would like to enter her service.’
Who acts: Prince, I, dragon · What happens: reply, hear, like, enter, service · To what, where: much, service · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince, I, dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 replied | conj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 beauty | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beauty | det |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kindness | cc |
| 15 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beauty | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Mother | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Dragon | det |
| 18 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Dragon | case |
| 20 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kindness | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 like | cc |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | aux |
| 24 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 heard | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 enter | mark |
| 26 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 like | xcomp |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 service | nmod:poss |
| 28 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 enter | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect | I | much of the beauty and kindness of the Dragon's Mother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | like | would | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | dragon's service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | |||||
| 5 | service | dragon | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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