The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 67
The King caused an escort suitable to her rank to be got ready for her, and she dressed herself splendidly, not forgetting anything that could make her more beautiful.
Who acts: King, Miranda · What happens: cause, get, dress, not forget, make · To what, where: escort, Miranda, anything
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Miranda), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 escort | det |
| 5 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obj |
| 6 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 escort | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 rank | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rank | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suitable | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 got | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 got | aux:pass |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rank | acl |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 got | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ready | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dressed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dressed | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dressed | nsubj |
| 19 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | conj |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 dressed | obj |
| 21 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 19 dressed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgetting | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 forgetting | advmod |
| 24 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 dressed | advcl |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 forgetting | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 anything | acl:relcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 beautiful | advmod |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 make | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the King | a escort | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition escort=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive · passive | the King not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING» | ||||
| 3 | dress | past | Miranda | Miranda | splendidly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 4 | not forget | gerund | Miranda not said here | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | could | Miranda | beautiful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
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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