The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 35
Am I not a princess, and the daughter of an emperor?’
Who acts: I · What happens: not be · To what, where: princess
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 (I), 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 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 princess | cop |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 princess | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 princess | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daughter | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 daughter | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 emperor | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 emperor | det |
| 12 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | a princess and the daughter of a emperor | 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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