The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 14
‘Oh! is that all?’ said the King, and he went up into the garret and brought her down more flax than she could spin in a hundred years.
Who acts: King, he, Queen · What happens: be, go up, bring down, spin · To what, where: garret, Queen
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, he, Queen), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 garret | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garret | det |
| 19 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brought | cc |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 flax | amod |
| 25 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 spin | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 spin | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 spin | aux |
| 29 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 brought | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 years | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hundred | det |
| 32 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 years | nummod |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 spin | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the King | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | he | the garret | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bring down | past | he not said here | Queen | more flax obl:unmarked | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 4 | spin | could | Queen | year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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