The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 72
“We must find him, however,” said the princess; “for if he is willing to marry me I cannot in honour refuse him, after what my father put on the horn.”
Who acts: We, princess, messenger · What happens: find, say, be, marry, refuse, put · To what, where: messenger, princess, father, horn · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, princess, messenger), 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 | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 find | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 willing | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 willing | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 willing | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 willing | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 willing | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 willing | cop |
| 19 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 refuse | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 marry | mark |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 willing | xcomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 marry | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 honour | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 honour | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 honour | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 honour | case |
| 27 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 willing | parataxis |
| 28 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 refuse | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 what | punct |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 what | case |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | parataxis |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 father | nmod:poss |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 what | nsubj |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 father | acl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 horn | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 horn | det |
| 38 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 what | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | must | We | messenger | however property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | messenger | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | messenger not said here | the princess = princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | refuse in a quote | present | messenger | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 6 | put in a quote | participle | my father not said here | the horn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on horn=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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