The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 106
'So this is why you have refused to marry all the kings and princes who have sought your hand?' he cried.
Who acts: this, you, kings, king · What happens: be, refuse, not marry, seek, cry · To what, where: kings, hand
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you, kings, king), 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 | _ | 8 refused | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 why | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 why | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 why | cop |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 refused | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 refused | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 refused | aux |
| 8 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 cried | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 refused | xcomp |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 kings | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kings | det |
| 13 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 marry | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 princes | cc |
| 15 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kings | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sought | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sought | aux |
| 18 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 kings | acl:relcl |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 refused | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 refused | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refuse | present · perfect | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | all kings and princes | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 4 | seek | present · perfect | all kings and princes | your hand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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