The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 68
The guards saluted him respectfully, and a messenger was sent to the Princess to announce the arrival of Charming as ambassador of her neighbor the King.
Who acts: guards, Charming · What happens: salute, send, announce, arrive · To what, where: Hark, messenger, Princess, arrival
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, Charming), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saluted | nsubj |
| 3 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saluted | obj |
| 5 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 3 saluted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 messenger | det |
| 9 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saluted | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 announce | mark |
| 16 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 arrival | det |
| 18 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 announce | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Charming | case |
| 20 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 arrival | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 ambassador | case |
| 22 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 announce | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 neighbor | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 25 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ambassador | nmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 neighbor | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | the guards | Hark | respectfully property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | a messenger | the Princess | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to princess=Destination | ||||
| 3 | announce speech: other | to-infinitive | the arrival of Charming | as ambassador of princess's neighbor | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | Charming | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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 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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