The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 46
‘I don’t think,’ said she to the King, ‘that your daughter is as good as she is said to be.
Who acts: I, Queen, daughter · What happens: not think, say, be · To what, where: Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Queen, daughter), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 good | mark |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 good | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 said | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | aux:pass |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 good | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 be | mark |
| 26 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | to the King | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to king=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | your daughter | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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