The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 35
The eldest brother was called ‘the Great Prince,’ and the second ‘the Little Prince.’
What happens: call · To what, where: eldest brother · 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: 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 brother | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Prince | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 8 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Prince | amod |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Prince | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Prince | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 second | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 second | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 called | conj |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Prince | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 17 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Prince | amod |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 second | vocative |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the eldest brother | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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