The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 61
‘You all heard how the two princess were loth to be married till the youngest would be ready with her crowns and her sweetheart.
Who acts: You, two princess, youngest, princess · What happens: hear, be, marry, crown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, two princess, youngest, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 You | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 loth | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 princess | nummod |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loth | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loth | cop |
| 10 | loth | loth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 married | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 married | aux:pass |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 loth | advcl |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 ready | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ready | det |
| 16 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 ready | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 ready | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ready | cop |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 married | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 crowns | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 crowns | nmod:poss |
| 22 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ready | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sweetheart | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crowns | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | You | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the two princess | loth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | the two princess not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | is | would | youngest | with princess's crowns and princess's sweetheart; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | crown | princess | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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