The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 49
All this Blauvor, the queen, found out by means of her black arts, and when the prince drew near the capital she put a splendid dress on her own daughter and then went to meet her guest.
Who acts: Blauvor, prince · What happens: find out, mean, draw, put, go, meet · To what, where: queen, capital, splendid dress, Blauvor
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blauvor, prince), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Blauvor | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Blauvor | det |
| 3 | Blauvor | Blauvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 queen | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Blauvor | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 queen | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 found | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 found | obl |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 arts | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 arts | amod |
| 15 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 means | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 drew | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drew | nsubj |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | advcl |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 capital | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 capital | det |
| 24 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drew | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dress | det |
| 28 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dress | amod |
| 29 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 daughter | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 daughter | amod |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 went | advmod |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 meet | mark |
| 38 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 went | xcomp |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 meet | obj |
| 40 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 meet | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | participle | the queen not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | all Blauvor | of Blauvor's black arts | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | the prince | the capital | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | put | past | Blauvor | a splendid dress | on Blauvor's own daughter | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme on daughter=Destination | |||
| 5 | go | past | Blauvor not said here | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | meet | to-infinitive | Blauvor not said here | Blauvor | 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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