The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 124
The Princess asked her what she wanted for it, and she replied that it was not for sale, either for gold or money, but that if she could get leave to go to the Prince, and be with him during the night, she should have it.
Who acts: Princess, comb · What happens: ask, want, reply, not be, get, leave · To what, where: girl, comb · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, comb), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 wanted | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 replied | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 sale | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sale | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sale | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 sale | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sale | case |
| 19 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gold | punct |
| 21 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 23 gold | cc:preconj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sale | appos |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 money | cc |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gold | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 leave | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 leave | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 get | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 get | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 get | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 get | aux |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 leave | advcl |
| 33 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 leave | xcomp |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Prince | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Prince | det |
| 38 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 go | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 him | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 him | cc |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 him | cop |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 leave | advcl |
| 44 | during | during | ADP | _ | 46 night | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 night | det |
| 46 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 leave | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 have | punct |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 have | nsubj |
| 49 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 have | aux |
| 50 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 have | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | want | past | princess | for comb | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | princess | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | comb | for sale | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | leave | infinitive | the Princess not said here | night | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | to the Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prince=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | is | infinitive | the Princess not said here | with prince | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | have | should | princess | comb | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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