The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 37

When Rosette was fifteen years old the Great Prince went to the King and asked if it would not soon be time for her to be married, and the Little Prince put the same question to the Queen.

Who acts: Rosette, Great Prince, smile, Little Prince · What happens: be, go, ask, not be, marry, put · To what, where: time, Rosette, same question

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 (Rosette, Great Prince, smile, Little Prince), 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	SCONJ	_	6 old	mark
2	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	advcl
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	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 time	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 time	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 time	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 time	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 time	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 time	cop
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	ccomp
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 married	mark
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 married	nsubj:pass
25	to	to	PART	_	27 married	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 married	aux:pass
27	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 time	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 put	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Prince	det
31	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Prince	amod
32	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 put	nsubj
33	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 question	det
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 question	amod
36	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 Queen	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Queen	det
39	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rosette		year	old property	tree rules
2	go	past	the Great Prince			to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	the Great Prince not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a a condition, not said to happen	would	smile	time		soon property	tree rules
5	marry	to-infinitive · passive		Rosette			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	put	past	the Little Prince	the same question		to the Queen	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal

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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