The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 51
‘I shall be satisfied with that,’ said the youth.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, say · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 satisfied | cop |
| 5 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 satisfied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | with that; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic |
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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