The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 70

The blue one was to be done first and the green last, and this was to be the most splendid of all, “for I will wear it at our marriage,” said he.

Who acts: this, Prince, our · What happens: do, be, wear, say, marry · To what, where: blue one, silk, marriage · 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 (this, Prince, our), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 done	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux:pass
5	to	to	PART	_	7 done	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 said	ccomp
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 done	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 last	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 last	det
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 last	amod
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 done	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 splendid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 splendid	cc
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 splendid	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 splendid	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	21 splendid	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 splendid	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 splendid	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 splendid	advmod
21	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 done	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 splendid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wear	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 wear	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 wear	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 wear	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 wear	aux
29	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wear	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 marriage	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 marriage	nmod:poss
33	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wear	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wear	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 said	nsubj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		the blue one		first property	tree rules
2	is	past	this			of all; splendid property	tree rules
3	wear in a quote	future	Prince	silk	our marriage		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry in a quote		our				nom marriage «state transitive»: 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.

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