The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 89
The young men were really the princes who, to the number of fifty at least, had tried to steal the princesses’ secret.
Who acts: young men · What happens: be, try, steal · To what, where: princes, secret
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 (young men), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 princes | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 princes | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 princes | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princes | det |
| 7 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 princes | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 number | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 number | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 who | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fifty | case |
| 14 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 least | case |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 fifty | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tried | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tried | aux |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 princes | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 steal | mark |
| 21 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princesses | det |
| 23 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 secret | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 23 princesses | case |
| 25 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steal | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 princes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the young men | the princes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | past · perfect | the young men not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | steal not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young men not said here | the princesses's secret | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location secret=Theme |
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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