The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 40
When they had all left, the prince said to the housekeeper:
Who acts: princes, prince · What happens: leave, say · To what, where: housekeeper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 left | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 housekeeper | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 housekeeper | det |
| 12 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | princes = prince | all property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | the housekeeper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to housekeeper=Recipient |
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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