The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 137

There was great joy and gladness between them all that night, but the next day, when the wedding was to take place, the Prince said, “I must see what my bride can do.”

Who acts: next day, Prince, bride · What happens: be, say, see, do · 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 (next day, Prince, bride), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 when	cop
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 joy	amod
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gladness	cc
6	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joy	conj
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gladness	nmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det:predet
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 when	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 when	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 when	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wedding	det
20	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 when	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 take	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wedding	acl:relcl
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Prince	det
27	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 place	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 do	obj
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bride	nmod:poss
36	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 do	aux
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 see	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the next day	when property	tree rules
2	is	past	the next day not said here	take property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	must	the Prince = prince		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do in a quote	can	my bride		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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