The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 159
“Rise, my children,” said the Fairy, “and I will transport you to the palace, and Prince Darling shall have back again the crown he forfeited by his bad behavior.”
Who acts: Fairy, Prince Darling, Darling · What happens: rise, say, transport, have back, forfeit · To what, where: children, you, palace, crown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. 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 Darling, Darling), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rise | punct |
| 2 | Rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Rise | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rise | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rise | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fairy | det |
| 10 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 transport | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 transport | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 transport | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 transport | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 transport | aux |
| 16 | transport | transport | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 transport | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 transport | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Darling | compound |
| 24 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 transport | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 have | advmod |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 have | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 crown | det |
| 30 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 forfeited | nsubj |
| 32 | forfeited | forfeit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 crown | acl:relcl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 behavior | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 behavior | amod |
| 36 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forfeited | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise in a quote | infinitive | my children | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | transport in a quote | future | the Fairy = fairy | you | the palace | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 4 | have back in a quote | shall | Prince Darling | the crown | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | |||
| 5 | forfeit in a quote | past | Darling | the crown not said here | by Darling's bad behavior | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
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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