The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived a king who was deeply in love with a princess, but she could not marry anyone, because she was under an enchantment.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: live, be, not marry · To what, where: king, love, anyone, enchantment
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, princess), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 love | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | cop |
| 11 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 13 love | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 princess | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 marry | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 marry | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 marry | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 marry | advmod |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 23 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 marry | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 enchantment | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 enchantment | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 enchantment | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 enchantment | cop |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 enchantment | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 enchantment | det |
| 30 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | a king | love | with a princess; deeply property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not marry | could | princess | anyone | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | princess | a enchantment | 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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