The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 102
And his master replied: ‘Our two Princes—for the third one has disappeared—have brought away brides from the other world, and want to marry them, but those brides refuse.
Who acts: master, brides · What happens: reply, disappear, bring away, want, marry, refuse · To what, where: two Princes, brides, other world
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, brides), 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 | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 disappeared | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 disappeared | punct |
| 7 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Princes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Princes | nummod |
| 9 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 disappeared | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disappeared | obl |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 disappeared | aux |
| 16 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 disappeared | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 21 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 world | amod |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 want | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 want | cc |
| 28 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 marry | mark |
| 30 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 want | xcomp |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 marry | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 refuse | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 refuse | cc |
| 34 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 brides | det |
| 35 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 refuse | nsubj |
| 36 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Prince's master | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | disappear | present · perfect · passive | Our two Princes | for the third one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring away | infinitive · perfect | brides | the other world | away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bride=Theme from world=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | want | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | brides = bride | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 6 | refuse | present | that brides | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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