The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 23
‘I see no way of saving our sons except by having Rosette’s head cut off while she is still little.’
Who acts: I, way, head, Rosette · What happens: see, save, have, cut off, be · To what, where: way, sons, head
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 (I, way, head, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 saving | mark |
| 7 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saving | obj |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 having | mark |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 having | mark |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saving | advcl |
| 13 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Rosette | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 having | obj |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 having | xcomp |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 cut | compound:prt |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 little | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 little | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 little | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 little | advmod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cut | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | no way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | save | gerund | no way not said here | our sons | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | no way not said here | Rosette's head | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cut off | participle | Rosette's head not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is | present | Rosette | still | little property | 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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