The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 50
She bade him welcome to her palace, and when they had finished supper she told him of the loss of her husband, and how there was no one left to govern the kingdom but herself.
Who acts: Blauvor, dresses, one · What happens: bade, finish, tell, be, leave, govern · To what, where: Prince, supper, one, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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, dresses, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 finished | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 finished | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 finished | aux |
| 13 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 told | advcl |
| 14 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finished | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 loss | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 loss | det |
| 20 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 husband | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 husband | nmod:poss |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loss | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 one | cc |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 was | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 was | expl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 one | cop |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | ccomp |
| 31 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 one | acl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 govern | mark |
| 33 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 left | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 kingdom | det |
| 35 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 govern | obj |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 herself | cc |
| 37 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 kingdom | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Blauvor | Prince | to Blauvor's palace | tree rules | |||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | dresses = dress | supper | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality supper=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Blauvor | Prince | of the loss of Blauvor's husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a | past | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave | participle | no one not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | govern | to-infinitive | no one not said here | the kingdom | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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