Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 13
The king's daughter was very pretty, and there were many young men in that country who were willing to do anything to win her.
Who acts: daughter, many young men, country · What happens: be, do, win · To what, where: anything, head
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, many young men, country), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pretty | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretty | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 were | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 were | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretty | parataxis |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 were | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 willing | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 willing | cop |
| 20 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 willing | xcomp |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 win | mark |
| 25 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 anything | acl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 win | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king's daughter | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | many young men in that country | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that country | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | that country not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | win | to-infinitive | that country not said here | head | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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