The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 21
This pleased the queen, and he rode off to the plain country, where his mother owned great estates; but everything was in beautiful order, and he returned with a joyful heart, and said, “Now, mother, you can be happy again, for your lands are better managed than anyone else’s I have seen.
Who acts: property, mother, everything · What happens: ride off, own, be, return, say, manage · To what, where: pleased queen, plain country, great estates, beautiful order · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (property, mother, everything), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 queen | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 queen | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rode | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rode | nsubj |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 queen | acl:relcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 rode | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 12 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 owned | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 owned | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 owned | nsubj |
| 18 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 country | conj |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 estates | amod |
| 20 | estates | estate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 owned | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 order | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 order | cc |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 order | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 order | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 order | case |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 order | amod |
| 27 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 returned | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 returned | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 returned | nsubj |
| 31 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rode | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 heart | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 heart | det |
| 34 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 heart | amod |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 returned | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rode | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 happy | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 happy | punct |
| 41 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 happy | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Now | punct |
| 43 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 happy | nsubj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 mother | punct |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 happy | nsubj |
| 46 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 happy | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 happy | cop |
| 48 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 said | ccomp |
| 49 | again | again | ADV | _ | 48 happy | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 better | punct |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 lands | case |
| 52 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 lands | nmod:poss |
| 53 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 better | obl |
| 54 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 better | cop |
| 55 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 said | parataxis |
| 56 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 better | conj |
| 57 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 63 seen | mark |
| 58 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 63 seen | nmod:poss |
| 59 | else | else | ADV | _ | 58 anyone | advmod |
| 60 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 58 anyone | case |
| 61 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 63 seen | nsubj |
| 62 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 seen | aux |
| 63 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 56 managed | advcl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | past | property | the pleased queen not said here | the plain country | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queen=Theme to country=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | own | past | property's mother | great estates | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot estate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | everything | beautiful order | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | past | property | with a joyful heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | property not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | can | mother | now; again | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | for your lands; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | manage in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | see in a quote | present · perfect | property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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