The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 52
‘As your highness pleases,’ said the dwarf, and took leave.
Who acts: highness · What happens: please, say, take, leave · To what, where: dwarf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (highness), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 pleases | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 highness | nmod:poss |
| 4 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleases | nsubj |
| 5 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleases | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleases | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dwarf | det |
| 10 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 took | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | present | your highness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | past | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 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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