The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 63
And first of all they had a portrait made of the Princess, which was so like her that you really would not have been surprised if it had spoken to you.
Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: have, make, be, not surprise, speak · To what, where: portrait, you · 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 (King, Princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 had | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 had | advmod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 first | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 portrait | det |
| 8 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 portrait | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl:agent |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 her | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 her | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 her | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 her | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Princess | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 surprised | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 surprised | nsubj |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 26 surprised | advmod |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 surprised | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 surprised | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 surprised | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 surprised | aux:pass |
| 26 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 her | advcl |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 spoken | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 spoken | aux |
| 30 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 surprised | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 spoken | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King | a portrait | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a portrait not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Princess | like sister | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not surprise | would · perfect · passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | portrait | you | 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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