The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 127
Are you going to send that, too, to the Princess?’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, send · To what, where: that, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 send | mark |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 send | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 send | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Princess | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 send | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | you not said here | that | the Princess | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme to princess=Destination |
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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