The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 85
He was a fine fellow,” said the brothers, “and the Princess threw the second golden apple to him!”
Who acts: brother, Princess · What happens: be, say, throw · To what, where: fine fellow, brothers, second golden apple, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brother, Princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fellow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fellow | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fellow | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brothers | det |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 threw | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 apple | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 apple | amod |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 apple | amod |
| 20 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | brother | a fine fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | |||||
| 3 | throw | past | the Princess | the second golden apple | brother | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to he=Destination |
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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