The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 109
And for three days everybody who came to see the Princess was presented with a slice of bread-and-jam, a nightingale’s egg, and some hippocras.
What happens: come, see, present, slice · To what, where: Princess, everybody, jam
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: 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 | _ | 13 presented | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 presented | obl |
| 5 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 everybody | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presented | aux:pass |
| 13 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 slice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 slice | det |
| 16 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 jam | case |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jam | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 jam | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jam | cc |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 and | punct |
| 22 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slice | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 egg | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 nightingale | det |
| 25 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 egg | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 nightingale | case |
| 27 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slice | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hippocras | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hippocras | cc |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 hippocras | det |
| 31 | hippocras | hippocras | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slice | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | present | past · passive | everybody | day | with a slice of jam and a nightingale's egg and some hippocras | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with slice=Theme | |||
| 4 | slice | jam | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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