The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 12
'You must know, then that our king fell in love with the youngest daughter of a tailor, who was as good and gentle as she was beautiful.
Who acts: You, king, tailor, swallow · What happens: know, fall, be · To what, where: love
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, king, tailor, swallow), 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 fell | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 fell | mark |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 king | nmod:poss |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 love | case |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 15 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 daughter | amod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tailor | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tailor | det |
| 19 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 good | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 good | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 good | cop |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 good | advmod |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tailor | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gentle | cc |
| 26 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 good | conj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 beautiful | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 beautiful | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beautiful | cop |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | our king | love | then | with the youngest daughter of a tailor | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | ||
| 3 | is | past | a tailor | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a tailor not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | swallow | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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