The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 98

‘It is the middle of the night, I know,’ said the Soldier; ‘but I should very much like to see the Princess for a moment.’

Who acts: dog, I, Soldier · What happens: be, know, say, like, see · To what, where: middle, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, I, Soldier), 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	_	5 middle	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 middle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 middle	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 middle	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Soldier	det
16	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 like	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 like	advmod
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 like	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 moment	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 moment	det
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 middle	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 middle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	dog	the middle	night	tree rules
2	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the Soldier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the Princess	moment	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus

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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