More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 11
"Ah! now the Prince has chosen for his wife the loveliest girl in all the land!"
Who acts: Prince · What happens: choose
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | _ | 8 chosen | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 chosen | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 chosen | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chosen | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 chosen | aux |
| 8 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chosen | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 land | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 chosen | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | present · perfect | the Prince | now | for Prince's wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wife=Beneficiary |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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