The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 81
In the evening, when everyone was to appear before the King and Princess, in order that he who had the golden apple might show it, one knight went in after the other, but none of them had a golden apple to show.
Who acts: everyone, knight, golden apple, one knight, none · What happens: be, have, show, go in · To what, where: order, armor, golden 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 (everyone, knight, golden apple, one knight), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appear | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 appear | mark |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 appear | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appear | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 appear | mark |
| 9 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 appear | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Princess | cc |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 order | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appear | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 order | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 apple | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 apple | amod |
| 24 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 show | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 show | aux |
| 26 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 show | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 knight | nummod |
| 30 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 show | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 other | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 other | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 went | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 had | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 had | cc |
| 38 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 41 had | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 none | nmod |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appear | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 apple | det |
| 43 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 apple | amod |
| 44 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 show | mark |
| 46 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 apple | acl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everyone | order | before the King and Princess; evening | appear property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | have | past | knight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | might | the golden apple | armor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go in | past | one knight | after the other | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | none | a golden apple | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | ||||
| 6 | show | to-infinitive | none not said here | a golden apple not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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