The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 3
So he called the elder Princess and said to her, ‘How much do you love me?’
Who acts: King, you · What happens: call, say, love · To what, where: elder Princess, Princess, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 5 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Princess | amod |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 13 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 do | obj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 love | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nsubj |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | King | the elder Princess | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | love | present · do-support | you | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «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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