The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 75
“Gracious prince,” said the maidens, “do ask Lucky Luck how it happens that here we are over thirty years old and no lover has come to woo us, though we are good, pretty, and very industrious.”
Who acts: Gracious prince, it, we, lover · What happens: say, ask, happen, be, come, woo · To what, where: maidens, Lucky Luck, us · 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 (Gracious prince, it, we, lover), 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 | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 2 | Gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maidens | det |
| 8 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | Lucky | Lucky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Luck | compound |
| 14 | Luck | Luck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 happens | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 happens | nsubj |
| 17 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 old | mark |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 old | advmod |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 old | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 old | cop |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 thirty | advmod |
| 23 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 old | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 happens | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 come | cc |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 lover | det |
| 28 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 old | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 woo | mark |
| 32 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 come | xcomp |
| 33 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 woo | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 good | punct |
| 35 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 good | mark |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 good | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 good | cop |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 happens | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pretty | punct |
| 40 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 good | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 industrious | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 industrious | cc |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 industrious | advmod |
| 44 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 good | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gracious prince | the maidens | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Lucky Luck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent luck=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | present | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | here | year | old property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | come in a quote | present · perfect | no lover | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | woo in a quote | to-infinitive | no lover not said here | us | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | we | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | we not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | be in a quote | we not said here | tree rules |
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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