The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 51
'There is only one way of helping you,' he said at last, 'and that is to marry the princess to my nephew, who, besides being young and handsome, has been trained in magic, and will know how to keep her safe from the dragon.'
Who acts: one way, way, that, nephew · What happens: be, help, say, train, know, keep · To what, where: you, magic, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one way, way, that, nephew), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 way | nummod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 helping | mark |
| 8 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 way | acl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 helping | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 marry | cc |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 marry | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 marry | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 nephew | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 27 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 young | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 young | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 young | punct |
| 31 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 33 young | case |
| 32 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 young | cop |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nephew | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 handsome | cc |
| 35 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 young | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 trained | punct |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 trained | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 trained | aux:pass |
| 39 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 nephew | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 magic | case |
| 41 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 trained | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 know | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 know | cc |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 know | aux |
| 45 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 46 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 keep | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 keep | mark |
| 48 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 know | ccomp |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 keep | obj |
| 50 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 keep | xcomp |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 dragon | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 dragon | det |
| 53 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 safe | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 55 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | gerund | one way not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | way | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | to my nephew; marry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | my nephew | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | my nephew not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | train | present · perfect · passive | that not said here | magic | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 8 | know | future | way not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | keep | to-infinitive | princess | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/51/