The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 60
Will not the princess have grown old in that time and have lost all her beauty?”
Who acts: princess · What happens: not grow, lose · To what, where: beauty
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 (princess), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 grown | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princes | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grown | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | aux |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grown | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 old | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 grown | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 beauty | det:predet |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | future · perfect | the princess | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | present · perfect | the princess not said here | bride's beauty | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Eventuality |
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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