Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 111
"The youngest is the most beautiful," said the prince, "and her will I wed."
Who acts: youngest · What happens: be, say · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 youngest | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youngest | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 youngest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beautiful | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 youngest | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 youngest | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 youngest | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prince | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 prince | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wed. | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wed. | nmod:poss |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wed. | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wed. | nsubj |
| 19 | wed. | Wednesday | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wed. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the beautiful obl:unmarked; young property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youngest | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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