The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 17
‘Oh! if that’s all,’ said the King, and he sent to all the shoe-makers in his kingdom, and they very soon made the Queen ten thousand green satin slippers, but still she looked sad.
Who acts: King, he, Queen · What happens: say, send, make, look · To what, where: kingdom, thousand green satin slippers, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 all | mark |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 all | nsubj |
| 6 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 all | cop |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sent | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 makers | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 makers | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 makers | det |
| 20 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 makers | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 shoe | punct |
| 22 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sent | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 kingdom | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 soon | advmod |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 made | advmod |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Queen | det |
| 33 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 34 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 thousand | compound |
| 35 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 slippers | nummod |
| 36 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 slippers | amod |
| 37 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 slippers | compound |
| 38 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 looked | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 looked | cc |
| 41 | still | still | ADV | _ | 43 looked | advmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 looked | nsubj |
| 43 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 44 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 looked | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send | past | he | his kingdom | to all shoe makers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to maker=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | past | King | thousand green satin slippers | the Queen | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset queen=Beneficiary slipper=Product | ||
| 4 | look | past | Queen | still | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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