The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 29
Now the Princesses were curious to know what was written in the book, especially the eldest, and this is what she read:
Who acts: Princesses, this, Princess · What happens: be, know, write, read · To what, where: book · 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 (Princesses, this, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 curious | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princesses | det |
| 3 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 curious | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 curious | cop |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 curious | csubj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 written | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 written | aux:pass |
| 10 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 know | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 book | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 written | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eldest | punct |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 eldest | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eldest | det |
| 17 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 book | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 what | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 what | cc |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 what | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | cop |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 curious | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 read | nsubj |
| 24 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princesses | now | curious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | write | past · passive | the book | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | read | past | Princess | 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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