The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 63
“Forget the maiden,” said the King, “and take another bride”; but the Prince said he could never love another.
Who acts: King, Prince · What happens: forget, say, take, not love · To what, where: maiden, bride, another · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Prince), 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 | _ | 2 Forget | punct |
| 2 | Forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Forget | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forget | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forget | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bride | det |
| 15 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 love | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 love | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 love | advmod |
| 25 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 love | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget in a quote | infinitive | the maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | another bride | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not love | could | King | another | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer another=Stimulus |
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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