The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 251
When they were brought back to the palace some one told the King, who said:
Who acts: one, King · What happens: bring back, tell, say · To what, where: King, palace · 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 (one, King), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 told | ccomp |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 King | acl:relcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past · passive | King | the palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | some one | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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