The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 65
One knight presented himself after the other, and none could show the apple.
Who acts: One knight, none · What happens: present, show · To what, where: knight, apple
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One knight, none), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 knight | nummod |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presented | nsubj |
| 3 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 presented | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 other | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 presented | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 show | cc |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 show | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 show | aux |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 presented | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 apple | det |
| 14 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 show | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | One knight | knight | after the other | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | could | none | the apple | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent apple=Recipient |
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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