The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 2
When it was time for the christening of the Princess, the Queen—as she always did—sent for all the fairies to be present at the ceremony, and afterwards invited them to a splendid banquet.
Who acts: it, Queen · What happens: be, do, send, invite, christen · To what, where: time, ceremony, fairies, Princess
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 (it, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 time | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 christening | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 christening | det |
| 7 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 christening | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Queen | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Princess | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 did | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 did | advmod |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | advcl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 fairies | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 fairies | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fairies | det |
| 24 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sent | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 present | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 present | cop |
| 27 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sent | advcl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 ceremony | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ceremony | det |
| 30 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 present | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 invited | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 invited | cc |
| 33 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 34 invited | advmod |
| 34 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 invited | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 banquet | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 banquet | det |
| 38 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 banquet | amod |
| 39 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 invited | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | time | for the christening of the Princess and the Queen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past | Queen | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | send | past | for all fairies | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | the ceremony | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | invite | past | fairies = fairy | to a splendid banquet; afterwards property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | christen | the Princess and the Queen | nom christening «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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