The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 2
So the King set out to seek a fairy, and asked what he could do to win the Princess’s love.
Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: set out, seek, ask, do, win, love · To what, where: fairy, love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seek | mark |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 win | mark |
| 18 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 do | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Princess | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 win | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | the King | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | the King not said here | a fairy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the King not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | could | king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | win | to-infinitive | king not said here | the Princess's love | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | love | the Princess | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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