The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 12
‘Well, we shall soon find that!’ thought the old Queen.
Who acts: we · What happens: find, think · To what, where: that, old Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 find | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 find | advmod |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Queen | amod |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | we | that | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the old Queen | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent queen=Attribute clause=Theme |
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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