The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 12
“Even if the prince and princess get safe over the bridge they will perish,” said they; “for the king is going to send a carriage to meet them which looks as new as paint.
Who acts: prince, king · What happens: get, perish, say, go, send, meet · To what, where: bridge, carriage, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, king), 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 | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 princess | cc |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prince | conj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | xcomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 safe | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 perish | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 perish | aux |
| 15 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 send | mark |
| 28 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 going | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 carriage | det |
| 30 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 send | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 meet | mark |
| 32 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 send | advcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 meet | obj |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 looks | nsubj |
| 35 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | parataxis |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 new | advmod |
| 37 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 looks | advcl |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 paint | case |
| 39 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 new | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the prince and princess | safe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | perish in a quote | future | prince | the bridge not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | send in a quote | to-infinitive | the king not said here | a carriage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | ||||
| 6 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | the king not said here | prince | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | look in a quote | present | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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