The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 49
“Have you anywhere seen or heard of the daughter of an emperor, king, or a prince, who is as clever and as handsome as I am, and who would be worthy to be my wife and the queen of my country?”
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: see, hear, be · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 emperor | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 emperor | det |
| 13 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 king | punct |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prince | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 prince | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 clever | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 clever | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 clever | cop |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 clever | case |
| 24 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prince | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 handsome | cc |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 handsome | advmod |
| 27 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clever | conj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 am | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 am | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 handsome | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 worthy | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 worthy | cc |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 worthy | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 worthy | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 worthy | cop |
| 36 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clever | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 wife | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wife | cop |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 wife | nmod:poss |
| 40 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 worthy | advcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 queen | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 queen | det |
| 43 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wife | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 country | case |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 country | nmod:poss |
| 46 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 queen | nmod |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 clever | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · perfect | you | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | participle | you not said here | of the daughter of a emperor and king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a prince | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | a prince not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | would | worthy property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | my wife and the queen of my country | tree rules |
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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