The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 222
The old man saw that Rosette must be some great lady, for her bed coverings were all of satin and gold.
Who acts: old man, Rosette · What happens: see, be · To what, where: great lady · 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 (old man, Rosette), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 lady | mark |
| 6 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lady | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lady | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lady | cop |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 lady | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lady | amod |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 coverings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coverings | compound |
| 16 | coverings | covering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 all | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 all | cop |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 satin | case |
| 20 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 all | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gold | cc |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 satin | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | Rosette | some great lady | tree rules |
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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