The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 5
PREFACE THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES THE PRINCESS MAYBLOSSOM SORIA MORIA CASTLE THE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.
Who acts: PREFACE, KOSHCHEI · What happens: castle, die · To what, where: DEATH
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PREFACE, KOSHCHEI), 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 | PREFACE | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 CASTLE | nsubj |
| 2 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 PRINCESSES | det |
| 3 | TWELVE | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 PRINCESSES | nummod |
| 4 | DANCING | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 PRINCESSES | compound |
| 5 | PRINCESSES | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 CASTLE | nsubj |
| 6 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 PRINCESS | det |
| 7 | PRINCESS | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 PRINCESSES | conj |
| 8 | MAYBLOSSOM | MAYBLOSSOM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 PRINCESS | appos |
| 9 | SORIA | SORIA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 MAYBLOSSOM | flat |
| 10 | MORIA | MORIA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 MAYBLOSSOM | flat |
| 11 | CASTLE | castle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 DEATH | det |
| 13 | DEATH | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 CASTLE | obj |
| 14 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 15 KOSHCHEI | case |
| 15 | KOSHCHEI | KOSHCHEI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 DEATH | nmod |
| 16 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 DEATHLESS | det |
| 17 | DEATHLESS | DEATHLESS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 KOSHCHEI | appos |
| 18 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 THIEF | det |
| 19 | BLACK | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 THIEF | amod |
| 20 | THIEF | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 CASTLE | xcomp |
| 21 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 KNIGHT | cc |
| 22 | KNIGHT | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 THIEF | conj |
| 23 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 25 GLEN | case |
| 24 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 GLEN | det |
| 25 | GLEN | GLEN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 KNIGHT | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 CASTLE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | castle | present | PREFACE | the DEATH of KOSHCHEI | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | KOSHCHEI | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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