The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 122
‘No, I can’t say I do,’ replied the King, somewhat embarrassed.
Who acts: I · What happens: not say, do, reply · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. 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 | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 say | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 say | advmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 embarrassed | punct |
| 16 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 17 embarrassed | advmod |
| 17 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | can | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the King | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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