The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 30
The father hesitated, then answered: ‘Here is the eldest, whom I have the honour to present to your Highness.’
Who acts: father, eldest, I · What happens: hesitate, answer, be, have, present · To what, where: father, honour, Highness
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, eldest, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 father | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 answered | advmod |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Here | punct |
| 9 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 answered | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Here | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eldest | det |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 Here | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 have | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 eldest | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 honour | det |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 present | mark |
| 20 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 honour | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Highness | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 present | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | participle | the father not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the father | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the eldest | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | the honour | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | present | to-infinitive | I not said here | the honour not said here | your Highness | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to highness=Recipient |
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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