The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 37
Percinet at first offered to send his courier to find out, but the Princess said:
Who acts: Princess · What happens: offer, send, find out, say · To what, where: Percinet, courier · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 offered | mark |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 offered | advmod |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 send | mark |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 offered | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 courier | nmod:poss |
| 8 | courier | courier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 send | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 send | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 find | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 offered | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | participle · passive | Percinet | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | palace's courier | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courier=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find out | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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