The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 73

‘We never went so slowly before,’ said the Princess; ‘what can be the reason?’

Who acts: We, Princess · What happens: not go, say, be · To what, where: reason · 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 (We, Princess), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 before	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 before	advmod
7	before	before	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 reason	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 reason	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 reason	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 reason	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reason	det
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 reason	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not go	past	We		before property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	can		the reason		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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