The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 49
The princess is known to love beautiful things, perhaps she might like to buy some?'
Who acts: princess · What happens: know, love, like, buy · To what, where: princess, beautiful things, some
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 love | mark |
| 6 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 known | xcomp |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 love | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 10 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 like | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 known | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 buy | mark |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | xcomp |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 buy | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | love | to-infinitive | beautiful things | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | like | might | princess | perhaps property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | some | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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