The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 151
It was agreed that the question should be submitted to the other ten sisters.
What happens: agree, submit · To what, where: part, question, other ten sisters
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | aux:pass |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 submitted | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 question | det |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 submitted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 submitted | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 submitted | aux:pass |
| 9 | submitted | submit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 agreed | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sisters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sisters | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sisters | amod |
| 13 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sisters | nummod |
| 14 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 submitted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | part | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | submit | should · passive | the question | the other ten sisters | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to sister=Recipient |
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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