The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 18
Now this princess was wonderfully pretty and was just sixteen years old, and the King was beginning to think it was time that she should be married.
Who acts: princess, King, park · What happens: be, begin, think, marry · To what, where: time, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, King, park), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 old | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 old | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 old | cop |
| 5 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 6 pretty | advmod |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 12 old | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 old | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 old | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 sixteen | advmod |
| 10 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 old | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beginning | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beginning | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 beginning | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beginning | aux |
| 18 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 old | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 think | mark |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 beginning | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 time | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | cop |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 think | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 married | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 married | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 married | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 married | aux:pass |
| 28 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 think | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this princess | now; year | old, pretty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | past · progressive | the King | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | park | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | should · passive | princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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