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The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 27

When his twentieth birthday was passed the Queen thought it was time that he should be married, so she commanded that the portraits of several princesses should be brought for him to see, and among the others was a picture of the Dear Little Princess!

Who acts: Queen, birthday, time, Prince · What happens: pass, think, be, marry, command, bring · To what, where: twentieth birthday, time, Prince, portraits, picture, several princesses · 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 (Queen, birthday, time, 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

advmodnmod:possamodnsubj:passaux:passdetnsubjadvclnsubjcopccompmarknsubj:passauxaux:passacl:relclpunctadvmodnsubjconjmarkdetnsubj:passcaseamodnmodauxaux:passccompmarknsubjmarkadvclpunctcccasedetoblcopdetparataxiscasedetamodamodnmodpunctrootWhenADVhisPRONtwentiethADJbirthdayNOUNwasAUXpassedVERBtheDETQueenPROPNthoughtVERBitPRONwasAUXtimeNOUNthatSCONJhePRONshouldAUXbeAUXmarriedVERB,PUNCTsoADVshePRONcommandedVERBthatSCONJtheDETportraitsNOUNofADPseveralADJprincessesNOUNshouldAUXbeAUXbroughtVERBforSCONJhimPRONtoPARTseeVERB,PUNCTandCCONJamongADPtheDETothersNOUNwasAUXaDETpictureNOUNofADPtheDETDearADJLittleADJPrincessNOUN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int6 passedadvmod
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 birthdaynmod:poss
3twentiethtwentiethADJDegree=Pos4 birthdayamod
4birthdaybirthdayNOUNNumber=Sing6 passednsubj:pass
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 passedaux:pass
6passedpassVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Queendet
8QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing9 thoughtnsubj
9thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 passedadvcl
10ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 timensubj
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 timecop
12timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing9 thoughtccomp
13thatthatSCONJ_17 marriedmark
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 marriednsubj:pass
15shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 marriedaux
16bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf17 marriedaux:pass
17marriedmarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 timeacl:relcl
18,,PUNCT_21 commandedpunct
19sosoADV_21 commandedadvmod
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 commandednsubj
21commandedcommandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 passedconj
22thatthatSCONJ_30 broughtmark
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 portraitsdet
24portraitsportraitNOUNNumber=Plur30 broughtnsubj:pass
25ofofADP_27 princessescase
26severalseveralADJDegree=Pos27 princessesamod
27princessesprincessNOUNNumber=Plur24 portraitsnmod
28shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 broughtaux
29bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf30 broughtaux:pass
30broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 commandedccomp
31forforSCONJ_34 seemark
32himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 seensubj
33totoPART_34 seemark
34seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf30 broughtadvcl
35,,PUNCT_42 picturepunct
36andandCCONJ_42 picturecc
37amongamongADP_39 otherscase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 othersdet
39othersotherNOUNNumber=Plur42 pictureobl
40wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin42 picturecop
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 picturedet
42picturepictureNOUNNumber=Sing6 passedparataxis
43ofofADP_47 Princesscase
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 Princessdet
45DeardearADJDegree=Pos47 Princessamod
46LittlelittleADJDegree=Pos47 Princessamod
47PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing42 picturenmod
48!!PUNCT_6 passedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1passpast · passivePrince's twentieth birthdayvn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2think speech: otherpastthe Queenvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3is apastbirthdaytimetree rules
4marryshould · passivetime not said herePrincevn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5commandpastQueenvn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6bringshould · passivethe portraits of several princessesvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
7seeto-infinitivePrincevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8is apasta pictureamong the others; of the Dear Little Princesstree rules
9portrayseveral princessesnom portrait «communication transitive»: of=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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