The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 13
The lady appeared to him a second time, and said: ‘Go to the castle of Beloeil, and you shall marry a princess.’
Who acts: lady, you · What happens: appear, say, go, marry · To what, where: Star, castle, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeared | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
| 14 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Go | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Beloeil | case |
| 19 | Beloeil | Beloeil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 castle | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 marry | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 marry | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 marry | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 marry | aux |
| 24 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Go | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 marry | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the lady | Star | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lady not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the castle of Beloeil | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | marry | shall | you | a princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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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