The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 55
Well, the whole matter might have ended there; but it so happened that the younger princess had fallen in love with the prince, as he had with her.
Who acts: it, younger princess, king · What happens: end, happen, fall, have · To what, where: whole matter, love
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 (it, younger princess, king), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 ended | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 matter | amod |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ended | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ended | aux |
| 8 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 ended | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 happened | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 happened | advmod |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ended | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 fallen | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 17 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 princess | amod |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fallen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fallen | aux |
| 20 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 happened | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fallen | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 prince | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fallen | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 had | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happened | parataxis |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | might · perfect · passive | the whole matter | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | the younger princess | love | with the prince | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 4 | have | past | king | with enemy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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