The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 18
‘Sisters,’ said the eldest Princess, ‘all day long we sew, spin, and read.
Who acts: Sisters, we · What happens: say, sew, spin, read · To what, where: eldest Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sisters, we), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sisters | punct |
| 2 | Sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sisters | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sisters | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 Princess | amod |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sew | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 sew | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sew | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 day | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sew | nsubj |
| 15 | sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spin | punct |
| 17 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sew | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 read | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 read | cc |
| 20 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sew | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sisters | the eldest Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sew | present | we | day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spin | present | we not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | read | infinitive | we not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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