The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 199
Therefore they demanded seven days in which to prove their innocence.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: demand, prove · To what, where: innocence
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 (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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 demanded | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 demanded | nsubj |
| 3 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 demanded | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 demanded | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 prove | mark |
| 9 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 demanded | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prove | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | Princess | day | therefore property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Precondition | |||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's innocence | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=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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