The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 198
This accusation was read to the prisoners, who cried out that they had spoken the truth, that their sister was indeed a Princess more beautiful than the day, and that there was some mystery about all this which they could not fathom.
Who acts: prisoners, sister, Princess · What happens: read, cry out, speak, be, not fathom · To what, where: accusation, prisoners, truth, mystery · 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 (prisoners, sister, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 accusation | det |
| 2 | accusation | accusation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux:pass |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prisoners | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prisoners | det |
| 7 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 read | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prisoners | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cried | compound:prt |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 spoken | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoken | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoken | aux |
| 15 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoken | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beautiful | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 beautiful | mark |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sister | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beautiful | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 beautiful | cop |
| 23 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Princess | det |
| 25 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 more | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spoken | conj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beautiful | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 mystery | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 mystery | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 was | mark |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 was | expl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 mystery | cop |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 mystery | det |
| 37 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | parataxis |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 which | det:predet |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 which | nsubj |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 fathom | obl |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 fathom | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 fathom | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 fathom | advmod |
| 45 | fathom | fathom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 mystery | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past · passive | this accusation | the prisoners | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to prisoner=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the prisoners | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | prisoners = prisoner | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | prisoners's sister | day | beautiful, indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | past | some mystery | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not fathom | could | Princess | about some mystery | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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