The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 53
Presently there came in a lady, more beautiful than can be imagined anywhere but in a fairy tale, who said:
What happens: come, imagine, say · To what, where: fairy tale · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 imagined | mark |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 imagined | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 imagined | aux:pass |
| 13 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 beautiful | advcl |
| 14 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 imagined | advmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tale | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tale | det |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tale | compound |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | in a lady; presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lady=Location | ||||
| 2 | imagine | can · passive | anywhere property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a fairy tale | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tale=Manner |
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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