The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 178
How ugly she is!’ and he fancied they must refer to some dwarf the Princess was bringing with her.
Who acts: word, sire, King, Princess · What happens: be, fancy, refer, bring · To what, where: dwarf
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 (word, sire, King, Princess), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 ugly | advmod |
| 2 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ugly | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ugly | cop |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 ugly | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ugly | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fancied | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fancied | nsubj |
| 9 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ugly | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 refer | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 refer | aux |
| 12 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fancied | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 dwarf | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 dwarf | det |
| 15 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refer | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bringing | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bringing | aux |
| 19 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 dwarf | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bringing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ugly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | word | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fancy | past | sire | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | refer | must | King | to some dwarf | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to dwarf=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · progressive | the Princess | some dwarf not said here | with word | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dwarf=Destination |
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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