The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 13
A child was to be brought to the palace, and next the king’s daughter would give her an apple.
What happens: bring, give · To what, where: child, palace, apple
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 brought | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 12 | next | next | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brought | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 apple | det |
| 21 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | a child | the palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | would | a apple | child | next the king's daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=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 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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