The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 104
As for Rosette’s portrait that was taken up to the palace, and the King did nothing but gaze at it all day and all night.
Who acts: King, Rosette · What happens: take up, do, gaze, portray · To what, where: that, palace, nothing
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 (King, Rosette), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 5 portrait | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 portrait | case |
| 3 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Rosette | case |
| 5 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 taken | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 did | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 gaze | cc |
| 20 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 taken | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gaze | obl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gaze | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 night | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 day | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past · passive | that | the palace | as Rosette's portrait | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | do | past | the King | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | gaze | infinitive | day | at portrait | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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