The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 23
Not far from here there stands a castle, in which the king’s daughter lives; we are at war with the king, and want to get the upper hand of him by carrying off the princess, but the castle is so well guarded that there is no getting into it.
Who acts: daughter, we · What happens: stand, live, be, want, get, carry off · To what, where: castle, war, upper hand, princess, hand
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, we), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 stands | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 here | case |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 far | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 far | advmod |
| 6 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lives | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lives | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lives | nsubj |
| 16 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 castle | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 war | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 war | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 war | cop |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 war | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 want | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 want | cc |
| 27 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stands | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 get | mark |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 want | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hand | det |
| 31 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hand | amod |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hand | nmod |
| 35 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 36 carrying | mark |
| 36 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 get | advcl |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 carrying | compound:prt |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 princess | det |
| 39 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carrying | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 guarded | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 guarded | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 castle | det |
| 43 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 guarded | aux:pass |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 well | advmod |
| 46 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 guarded | advmod |
| 47 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stands | conj |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 is | mark |
| 49 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 50 is | expl |
| 50 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 guarded | advcl |
| 51 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 52 getting | det |
| 52 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 50 is | ccomp |
| 53 | into | into | ADP | _ | 54 it | case |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 getting | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a castle | far property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the king's daughter | a castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | we | war | with the king | tree rules | |||
| 4 | want | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the upper hand of king | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | carry off | gerund | the princess | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||||
| 7 | guard | present · passive | the castle | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 8 | be | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | get | gerund | hand | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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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