The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 97
So an embassy was prepared, with the minister at its head, to visit the greatest courts in the world, and to choose out a suitable princess.
Who acts: embassy · What happens: be, visit, choose out · To what, where: greatest courts, world, suitable princess
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 (embassy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 prepared | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 embassy | det |
| 3 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepared | cop |
| 5 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 minister | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 minister | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 minister | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 visit | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 visit | mark |
| 15 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prepared | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 courts | det |
| 17 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 courts | amod |
| 18 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 visit | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 courts | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 choose | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 choose | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 choose | mark |
| 25 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 visit | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 choose | compound:prt |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 princess | det |
| 28 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 princess | amod |
| 29 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 choose | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a embassy | with the minister at embassy's head; prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | a embassy not said here | the greatest courts | the world | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | choose out | to-infinitive | a embassy not said here | a suitable princess | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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