The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 58
To her he confided all his plans, and left his wife, the princess, in her care.
Who acts: servant, woman · What happens: confide, leave, plan, care · To what, where: plans, woman, wife, care
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 (servant, woman), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 her | case |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 confided | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 confided | nsubj |
| 4 | confided | confide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 plans | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 plans | nmod:poss |
| 7 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 confided | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 confided | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 princess | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 care | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 care | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 care | nmod:poss |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confide speech: other | past | servant | servant's plans | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plan=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | leave | past | servant not said here | servant's wife and the princess | woman's care | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme in care=Location | |||
| 3 | plan | servant | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | care | woman | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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