The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 112
They took a boat and put out to sea, carrying with them the bushel of gold pieces, and enough dresses to last the Princess ten years if she wore two every day, and they did nothing but laugh and sing.
Who acts: King, enough dresses, Rosette, dresses · What happens: take, put out, carry, last, wear, do · To what, where: boat, bushel, Princess, two, 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, enough dresses, Rosette, dresses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carrying | punct |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carrying | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bushel | det |
| 15 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pieces | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pieces | compound |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bushel | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 last | cc |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dresses | amod |
| 22 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 last | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 last | mark |
| 24 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Princess | det |
| 26 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 last | obj |
| 27 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 years | nummod |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 last | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 wore | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wore | nsubj |
| 31 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 last | advcl |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 wore | obj |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wore | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 did | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 did | cc |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 did | nsubj |
| 38 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 39 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 38 did | obj |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 laugh | cc |
| 41 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 nothing | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sing | cc |
| 43 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 laugh | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | a boat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put out | participle | King not said here | to sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | King not said here | the bushel of gold pieces | with King | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme | |||
| 4 | last | to-infinitive | enough dresses | the Princess | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme princess=Value | |||
| 5 | wear a condition, not said to happen | past | Rosette | two | day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent two=Source | |||
| 6 | do | past | dresses = dress | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | laugh | present | dresses = dress not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sing speech: express | present | dresses = dress not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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