The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 89
But rather seek out a princess of some great kingdom, who has been used to courts all her life, and holds them at their true worth.
Who acts: you · What happens: seek out, use, hold · To what, where: princess, courts, true worth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 seek | cc |
| 2 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 3 seek | advmod |
| 3 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 seek | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seek | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 kingdom | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 princess | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 used | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 used | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 used | aux:pass |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 princess | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 courts | case |
| 17 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | obl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 life | det:predet |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 holds | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 holds | cc |
| 23 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seek | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 holds | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 worth | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 worth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 worth | amod |
| 28 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holds | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek out | imperative | you not said here | a princess of some great kingdom | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present · perfect · passive | a princess of some great kingdom | to courts; queen's life obl:unmarked | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | present | you not said here | courts = court | courts's true worth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at worth=Location |
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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