The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 62

How could the lovely Princess Fiordelisa be a little kitchen-maid? or how could a little kitchen-maid have Fiordelisa’s own voice?

Who acts: lovely Princess Fiordelisa · What happens: be, have · To what, where: little kitchen maid, own voice

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely Princess Fiordelisa), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 maid	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 maid	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fiordelisa	det
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Fiordelisa	amod
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fiordelisa	compound
6	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 maid	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 maid	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 maid	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maid	amod
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maid	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 kitchen	punct
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 could	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 could	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 could	advmod
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 maid	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 maid	amod
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 maid	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 kitchen	punct
21	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 could	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 voice	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Fiordelisa	case
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 voice	amod
26	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	could	the lovely Princess Fiordelisa	a little kitchen maid					tree rules
2	have	could		Fiordelisa's own voice					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

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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