The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 81
‘He wants a hundred kisses from the Princess,’ said the lady-in-waiting who had gone down to ask him.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: want, say, wait, go down, ask · To what, where: hundred kisses, lady, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince), 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 wants | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 kisses | nummod |
| 6 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wants | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kisses | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 waiting | punct |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 waiting | mark |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 in | punct |
| 18 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lady | parataxis |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 waiting | advcl |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 gone | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 gone | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Prince | hundred kisses | from the Princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kiss=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lady | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go down | past · perfect | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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