The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 148
For this was the way that in old times beautiful princesses got rid of people who knew too much.
Who acts: this, way, people · What happens: be, get, know · To what, where: much
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 (this, way, people), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 got | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | obl |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princesses | amod |
| 11 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 13 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 got | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rid | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 people | acl:relcl |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knew | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | for the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the way | time | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | know | past | people | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
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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