The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 188
‘This is a dismal kind of wedding,’ they said; ‘what can have happened that we should be treated like this?
Who acts: This, soldiers · What happens: be, say, happen, treat · To what, where: dismal kind, we · 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 (This, soldiers), 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 | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wedding | case |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 happened | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 happened | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 happened | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 happened | aux |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 treated | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 treated | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 treated | aux:pass |
| 23 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 happened | advcl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 this | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 treated | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a dismal kind | of wedding | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | soldiers = soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | can · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | treat | should · passive | we | like this | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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