The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 149
‘Great Queen,’ said Paridamie, ‘permit me to restore to you your daughter Rosanella, whom I stole out of her cradle.’
Who acts: Great Queen, I · What happens: say, permit, restore, steal · To what, where: me, daughter, you, cradle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Queen, I), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Queen | amod |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Queen | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Queen | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Paridamie | Paridamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 permit | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 permit | punct |
| 10 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 permit | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 restore | mark |
| 13 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 permit | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 restore | obl |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 restore | obj |
| 18 | Rosanella | Rosanella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stole | punct |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stole | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 stole | nsubj |
| 22 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 daughter | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 cradle | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 cradle | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stole | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Great Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | permit | infinitive | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | restore not said to happen | to-infinitive | your daughter | you | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | steal | past | I | your daughter | Queen's cradle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent whom=Theme out cradle=Source |
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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