The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 103
The prince accepted gladly, and they went back to the palace, where the bald-headed king’s daughter, who was still more beautiful than the other princess, welcomed them at the door and led the way into a large hall and to a table covered with silver dishes.
Who acts: prince, supper, daughter · What happens: accept, go back, be, welcome, lead, cover · To what, where: supper, door, way, large hall, table
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, supper, daughter), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 3 accepted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 daughter | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 daughter | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 16 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 headed | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bald | punct |
| 18 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 king | amod |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beautiful | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 beautiful | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 beautiful | cop |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 princess | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 princess | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 princess | amod |
| 31 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beautiful | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 welcomed | punct |
| 33 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | parataxis |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 welcomed | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 door | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 door | det |
| 37 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 welcomed | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 led | cc |
| 39 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 welcomed | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 way | det |
| 41 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 led | obj |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 hall | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 hall | det |
| 44 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 hall | amod |
| 45 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 led | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 table | cc |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 table | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 table | det |
| 49 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hall | conj |
| 50 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 table | acl |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 dishes | case |
| 52 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 dishes | compound |
| 53 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 covered | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the prince | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | supper | to the palace and the headed king's daughter result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the headed king's daughter | still | than the other princess; beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | welcome | past | supper | the door | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at door=Location | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | the way | a large hall and a table | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme into hall=Destination | ||||
| 6 | cover | participle | a table not said here | with silver dishes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dish=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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