The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 82

‘I believe he is mad!’ said the Princess, and then she went on; but she had only gone a few steps when she stopped.

Who acts: I, Prince, Princess, instrument · What happens: believe, be, say, go on, go, stop · To what, where: few steps · 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 (I, Prince, Princess, instrument), 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 believe	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
3	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 believe	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 went	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	conj
17	on	on	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 gone	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 gone	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gone	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 gone	advmod
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 believe	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 steps	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 steps	amod
26	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gone	obj
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 stopped	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stopped	nsubj
29	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	Prince			mad property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	go on	past	instrument		then		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past · perfect	instrument	a few steps			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
6	stop	past	instrument				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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