The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 34
When he heard the news he had a great tower built as quickly as possible, and there the Princess was shut up, and the King and Queen and her two brothers went to see her every day that she might not be dull.
Who acts: hermit, King, Queen · What happens: hear, have, build, shut up, go, see · To what, where: news, great tower, Princess, Queen
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 (hermit, King, 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tower | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tower | amod |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tower | acl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 quickly | advmod |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 built | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 possible | mark |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 quickly | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shut | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shut | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 shut | expl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 shut | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shut | aux:pass |
| 22 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 shut | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 went | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Queen | cc |
| 29 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 King | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 brothers | cc |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 brothers | nummod |
| 33 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 King | conj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 went | xcomp |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | obj |
| 38 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 dull | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 dull | nsubj |
| 42 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 dull | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 dull | advmod |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 dull | cop |
| 45 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 see | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | hermit | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | hermit | a great tower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | a great tower not said here | quickly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | shut up | past · passive | the Princess | there | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the King and Queen and Queen's two brothers | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | the King and Queen and Queen's two brothers not said here | Queen | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | not is | might | Queen | dull 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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