The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 57
I declare that I will never marry any one but the King of the Peacocks, and when I am Queen I will take very good care that nobody eats any of my subjects.’
Who acts: I, Queen, nobody · What happens: declare, not marry, be, take, eat · To what, where: one, Queen, good care, any
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, Queen, nobody), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 declare | nsubj |
| 2 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 marry | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 marry | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 marry | advmod |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 declare | advcl |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 King | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 one | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Peacocks | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Peacocks | det |
| 15 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 King | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 take | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 Queen | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Queen | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Queen | cop |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 take | nsubj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 marry | conj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 good | advmod |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 care | amod |
| 27 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 eats | mark |
| 29 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 eats | nsubj |
| 30 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | advcl |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 eats | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 subjects | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 34 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 any | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 declare | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 declare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not marry | future | I | any one | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | future | Queen | good care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | present | nobody | any | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient |
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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