The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 28
‘I hope that this, at least, is not real?’ asked the Princess.
Who acts: I, Princess · What happens: hope, not be, ask · To what, where: this, least
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Princess), 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 | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 this | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hope | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 least | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 least | case |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 hope | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 real | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 real | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 real | advmod |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hope | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 real | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 real | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 real | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | this | least | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | I not said here | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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