The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 32

‘Sire,’ answered the Princess, ‘I assure you that I am not in the habit of wearing dresses as crumpled and untidy as this one, so I should have been better pleased if you had not seen me at all.’

Who acts: Sire, I, habit, you · What happens: answer, assure, not be, wear, crumple, be · To what, where: Princess, you, habit, dresses, me, all

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Sire, I, habit, you), 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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 assure	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 assure	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 assure	nsubj
11	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 assure	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 habit	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 habit	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 habit	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 habit	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 habit	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 habit	det
19	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assure	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 wearing	mark
21	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 habit	acl
22	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wearing	obj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 crumpled	mark
24	crumpled	crumple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wearing	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 untidy	cc
26	untidy	untidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 crumpled	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 untidy	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pleased	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	37 pleased	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 pleased	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 pleased	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 pleased	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 pleased	cop
36	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 pleased	advmod
37	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 assure	conj
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 seen	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 seen	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 seen	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 seen	advmod
42	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 pleased	advcl
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 seen	obj
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 all	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 seen	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Sire		the Princess			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	assure	present	I		you			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	not is	present	I			the habit		tree rules
4	wear	gerund	the habit not said here	dresses				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
5	crumple	participle	the habit not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is	should · perfect	I				pleased, well property	tree rules
7	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you	me		all		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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