The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 9

‘Yes, madam,’ answered the King, ‘I am prepared to respect you as much as a Fairy can be respected, if you will give me back my Princess.’

Who acts: madam, you · What happens: answer, prepare, respect, give back · To what, where: King, I, you, Fairy, Princess, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, 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	_	4 madam	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 madam	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 madam	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 madam	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prepared	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 prepared	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 prepared	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 prepared	aux:pass
14	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 answered	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 respect	mark
16	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 prepared	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 respect	obj
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 respect	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 respected	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Fairy	det
22	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 respected	nsubj:pass
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 respected	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 respected	aux:pass
25	respected	respect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 much	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 give	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 respect	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	back	back	ADP	_	30 give	compound:prt
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Princess	nmod:poss
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	madam		the King	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	prepare	present · passive		I		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	respect not said to happen	to-infinitive		you		tree rules
4	respect	can · passive		a Fairy		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	give back a condition, not said to happen	future	you	my Princess	me	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient princess=Theme

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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