The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 129
It is not hard to guess that the princess listened to the king’s wooing, and their betrothal took place with great pomp and rejoicings.
Who acts: princess, betrothal, king, apartments · What happens: not be, guess, listen, take, woo, betroth · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, betrothal, king, apartments), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hard | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 guess | mark |
| 6 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | csubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 listened | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listened | nsubj |
| 10 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 guess | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wooing | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wooing | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 betrothal | nmod:poss |
| 19 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | conj |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 pomp | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pomp | amod |
| 24 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rejoicings | cc |
| 26 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pomp | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | guess | to-infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | listen | past | the princess | to the king's wooing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wooing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | apartments's betrothal | place | with great pomp and rejoicings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 5 | woo | the king | nom wooing «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | betroth | apartments = apartment | nom betrothal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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