The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 21
For I am told that, far away, across many seas, is the great kingdom of the Island of Busan, and that the daughter of the king is the beautiful Princess Helena.”
Who acts: I, that, daughter · What happens: be · To what, where: many seas, great kingdom, beautiful Princess Helena
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 (I, that, daughter), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 that | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | cop |
| 4 | told | told | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 kingdom | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 that | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 seas | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seas | amod |
| 12 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 that | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 kingdom | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kingdom | amod |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Island | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Island | det |
| 20 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 kingdom | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Busan | case |
| 22 | Busan | Busan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Island | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Helena | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Helena | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 Helena | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 daughter | det |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Helena | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 king | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 daughter | nmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Helena | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Helena | det |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Helena | amod |
| 34 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Helena | compound |
| 35 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 kingdom | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 kingdom | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 kingdom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | many seas | for that; away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the great kingdom | of the Island of Busan | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the daughter of the king | the beautiful Princess Helena | 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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