The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 154
To the queen he whispered, ‘I didn’t think you would be such a fool.’
Who acts: king, I, you · What happens: whisper, not think, be · To what, where: queen, fool · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, I, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 queen | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whispered | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 whispered | nsubj |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 whispered | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fool | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fool | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fool | cop |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 fool | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fool | det |
| 17 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 think | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | king | the queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | would | you | such fool | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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