The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 102
And the Princes were so sure that Rosette was far prettier than her portrait that they went without a murmur.
Who acts: the, Rosette, Princess · What happens: be, go, portray
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (the, Rosette, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sure | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 the | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 prettier | mark |
| 8 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 prettier | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 prettier | cop |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 prettier | advmod |
| 11 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 portrait | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 14 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prettier | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 prettier | advcl |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 murmur | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 murmur | det |
| 20 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Rosette | than Rosette's portrait; far, pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Princess | without a murmur | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | portray | Rosette | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=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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