The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 13
‘My daughter,’ answered the emperor, ‘what you say is true.
Who acts: daughter, you · What happens: answer, say, be · To what, where: emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 true | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 true | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 true | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 true | cop |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My daughter | the emperor | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent emperor=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | true property | 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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