The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 38
‘What can a beggar such as I promise you?’ answered the prince.
Who acts: I, beggar · What happens: promise, answer · To what, where: beggar, you, prince
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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, beggar), 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 | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 answered | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | aux |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 beggar | det |
| 5 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 promise | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 promise | nsubj |
| 9 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beggar | acl:relcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 promise | iobj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 promise | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 promise | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | I | a beggar not said here | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | can | a beggar | the prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent what=Theme prince=Eventuality |
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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