The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 88
Soon after the queen again sent to say that she wanted to buy the spindle.
Who acts: Ilonka · What happens: send, say, want, buy · To what, where: spindle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilonka), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sent | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 queen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 buy | mark |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spindle | det |
| 15 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | after the queen; again | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | want | past | Ilonka | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ilonka not said here | the spindle | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spindle=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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