The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 9
The princess welcomed the boy back joyfully, but the poor youth was not allowed to rest long in peace, for one day a fresh letter arrived from the Sultan, saying that he had discovered that the young man was a very dangerous person, and that he must be sent to Turkey at once, and alone.
Who acts: princess, poor youth, fresh letter, letter, young man · What happens: welcome, not allow, rest, arrive, say, discover · To what, where: boy, poor youth, peace, Sultan, dangerous person, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, poor youth, fresh letter, letter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 welcomed | nsubj |
| 3 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 welcomed | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 joyfully | advmod |
| 7 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 3 welcomed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 allowed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 allowed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 youth | amod |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 allowed | aux:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 allowed | advmod |
| 15 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 welcomed | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 rest | mark |
| 17 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 allowed | xcomp |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 rest | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 peace | case |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rest | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 arrived | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 day | nummod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 arrived | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 letter | det |
| 26 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 letter | amod |
| 27 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 arrived | nsubj |
| 28 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 allowed | advcl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Sultan | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sultan | det |
| 31 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 arrived | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saying | punct |
| 33 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 arrived | advcl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 discovered | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 discovered | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 discovered | aux |
| 37 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 saying | ccomp |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 person | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 man | det |
| 40 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 man | amod |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 person | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 person | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 person | det |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 dangerous | advmod |
| 45 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 person | amod |
| 46 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 discovered | advcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 sent | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 sent | cc |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 sent | mark |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 sent | nsubj |
| 51 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 sent | aux |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 sent | aux:pass |
| 53 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 allowed | conj |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 Turkey | case |
| 55 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 sent | obl |
| 56 | at | at | ADP | _ | 57 once | case |
| 57 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 53 sent | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 alone | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 alone | cc |
| 60 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 53 sent | advmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | the princess | the boy | joyfully property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | |||
| 2 | not allow | past · passive | the poor youth | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | the poor youth not said here | peace | long property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 4 | arrive | past | a fresh letter | the Sultan | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sultan=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | a fresh letter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | discover | past · perfect | letter | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | the young man | a dangerous person | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | send | must · passive | man | Turkey | alone property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to turkey=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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