The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 26
The princess exclaimed: ‘You have done well so to do; but you must know that your wager is not yet won, for my father will change me and my maidens into ducks, and will ask you, “Which of these ducks is the princess?”
Who acts: princess, You, wager, father, your · What happens: exclaim, do, know, not be, change, ask · To what, where: me, you, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, You, wager, father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 done | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 done | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 won | mark |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wager | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 won | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 won | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 won | advmod |
| 23 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 won | advmod |
| 24 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 know | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 change | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 change | mark |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 change | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 change | aux |
| 30 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 won | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 change | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 maidens | cc |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 34 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 me | conj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 ducks | case |
| 36 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 change | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ask | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ask | cc |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 ask | aux |
| 40 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 ask | iobj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 princess | punct |
| 43 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 princess | punct |
| 44 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 princess | nsubj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 ducks | case |
| 46 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 47 ducks | det |
| 47 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 Which | nmod |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 princess | cop |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 princess | det |
| 50 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ask | obl |
| 51 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 40 ask | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | You | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | your wager | yet | win property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | change | future | my father | me | into ducks result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into duck=Result | |||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | future | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | wager | your | nom wager «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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