The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 224
The Princess told him everything, weeping bitterly again at the thought that it was by the King’s orders that she had been thrown overboard.
Who acts: Princess, thought, orders · What happens: tell, weep, be, throw · To what, where: everything, Frisk, thought, Rosette · 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 (Princess, thought, orders), 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 | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
| 7 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 told | advcl |
| 8 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 7 weeping | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 weeping | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 thought | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thought | det |
| 12 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weeping | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 orders | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 orders | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 orders | cop |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 orders | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 orders | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 thrown | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thrown | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 thrown | aux:pass |
| 25 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 orders | acl |
| 26 | overboard | overboard | ADV | _ | 25 thrown | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Princess | everything | Frisk | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic | |||
| 2 | weep | gerund | the Princess not said here | the thought | again | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | is | past | thought | by the King's orders | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | throw | past · perfect · passive | the King's orders not said here | Rosette | overboard property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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