The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 98
She shut the Dear Little Princess up in a palace of crystal, and put this palace down where the Prince would not fail to find it.
Who acts: fairy, Prince · What happens: shut up, put down, not fail, find · To what, where: Dear Little Princess, palace
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 (fairy, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 4 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Princess | amod |
| 5 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Princess | amod |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 shut | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crystal | case |
| 12 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 shut | advcl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 put | compound:prt |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 fail | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fail | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 fail | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 fail | advmod |
| 24 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 put | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 find | mark |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fail | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 find | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past | fairy | the Dear Little Princess | a palace of crystal | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||
| 2 | put down | infinitive | fairy not said here | this palace | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent palace=Goal | ||||
| 3 | not fail | would | the Prince | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | palace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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