The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 67
The Prince answered at random, and presently asked if he was not to have the pleasure of seeing the Princess Fiordelisa.
Who acts: Prince, pleasure · What happens: answer, ask, not have, see · To what, where: random, pleasure, Princess Fiordelisa
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 (Prince, pleasure), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 random | case |
| 5 | random | random | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 8 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 have | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pleasure | det |
| 17 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 seeing | mark |
| 19 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 pleasure | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Fiordelisa | det |
| 21 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Fiordelisa | compound |
| 22 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 seeing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Prince | random | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince not said here | presently property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not have a condition, not said to happen | past | Prince | the pleasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | the pleasure not said here | the Princess Fiordelisa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fiordelisa=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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