The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 43
And then the Princess saw how she dressed up a log of wood and had it buried, and how the old King cried, and all the people murmured that the Queen had killed Graciosa with her cruelties, and that she ought to have her head cut off.
Who acts: Princess, log, old King, people, Queen, head · What happens: see, dress up, have, bury, cry, murmur · To what, where: log, Graciosa · 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, log, old King, people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 dressed | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dressed | nsubj |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 dressed | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 log | det |
| 11 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dressed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 log | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cried | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 cried | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 King | amod |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 murmured | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 murmured | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 people | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 murmured | nsubj |
| 30 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cried | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 killed | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Queen | det |
| 33 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 killed | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 killed | aux |
| 35 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 murmured | ccomp |
| 36 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 killed | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 cruelties | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 cruelties | nmod:poss |
| 39 | cruelties | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 killed | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 have | cc |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 have | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 have | nsubj |
| 44 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 have | aux |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 have | mark |
| 46 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | conj |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 head | nmod:poss |
| 48 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 cut | nsubj |
| 49 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 have | parataxis |
| 50 | off | off | ADP | _ | 49 cut | compound:prt |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Princess | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dress up | past | Princess | a log of wood | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the Princess not said here | log | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bury | participle | log not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | the old King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | murmur speech: other | past | all people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | kill | past · perfect | the Queen | Graciosa | with Princess's cruelties | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent graciosa=Patient with cruelty=Instrument | |||
| 8 | have | ought | Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | cut off | past | Princess's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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