The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 56
At last the eldest said, ‘Be quick, my sisters, our partners will be impatient.’
Who acts: partners · What happens: say, be · 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 (partners), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 said | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 said | amod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 last | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quick | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 quick | punct |
| 8 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 quick | cop |
| 9 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sisters | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 quick | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 impatient | punct |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 partners | nmod:poss |
| 15 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 impatient | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 impatient | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 impatient | cop |
| 18 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quick | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | my sisters obl; quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | future | our partners | impatient property | tree rules |
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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