The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 51
“But where is the Princess Lineik?” asked the prince when she had ended her tale.
Who acts: Princess Lineik, Lineik · What happens: be, ask, end, tell · To what, where: Princess Lineik, prince, tale · 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 (Princess Lineik, Lineik), 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 | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Lineik | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 Lineik | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lineik | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lineik | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lineik | compound |
| 7 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lineik | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lineik | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 ended | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ended | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ended | aux |
| 16 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tale | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ended | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Princess Lineik | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess Lineik | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | end | past · perfect | Lineik | Lineik's tale | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tell | Lineik | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/51/