The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 25
We have suffered so much evil together, and love each other so much,” said the Prince; and he insisted on going home for the coach with the seven horses, and she was to wait for him there, by the sea-shore.
Who acts: We, Prince, giant, bride · What happens: suffer, love, say, insist, go, be · To what, where: much evil, each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Prince, giant, bride), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suffered | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffered | aux |
| 3 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 evil | amod |
| 6 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffered | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 suffered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 love | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 love | cc |
| 10 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffered | parataxis |
| 11 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 love | obj |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 each | fixed |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 love | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 love | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffered | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 insisted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 insisted | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 insisted | nsubj |
| 23 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 going | mark |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 insisted | advcl |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 going | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 coach | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coach | det |
| 29 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 going | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 horses | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 horses | det |
| 32 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 horses | nummod |
| 33 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 coach | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wait | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 wait | cc |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wait | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 wait | cop |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 wait | mark |
| 39 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 insisted | conj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wait | obl |
| 42 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 wait | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 shore | punct |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 shore | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 shore | det |
| 46 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 shore | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 sea | punct |
| 48 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wait | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | present · perfect | We | much evil | together property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | love | present | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | insist speech: other in a quote | past | giant | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | gerund | giant not said here | for the coach with the seven horses; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for coach=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | bride | there | for giant; by the sea shore; wait 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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