The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 77
This speech was repeated to the princess, who ordered the brothers to be brought to the red-room at once.
Who acts: princess · What happens: repeat, order, bring · To what, where: speech, princess, brothers, red room
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), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 speech | det |
| 2 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeated | aux:pass |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 princess | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brothers | det |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ordered | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 room | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 red | punct |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 brought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past · passive | this speech | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to princess=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the princess | the brothers | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the princess not said here | the red room | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to room=Destination |
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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