The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 5
So one by one the knights came out against him, and one by one he vanquished them all, and then he opened the box, and said that, to console them, he would show them the portrait of his Queen of Beauty, and when he did so everyone recognised the Princess Graciosa.
Who acts: one, King, console, everyone · What happens: come out, vanquish, open, say, show, do · To what, where: knights, box, Princess Graciosa, Queen · 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 (one, King, console, everyone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knights | det |
| 6 | knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vanquished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vanquished | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 vanquished | nsubj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 vanquished | nsubj |
| 17 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 vanquished | obj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 opened | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 opened | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 opened | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 opened | nsubj |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 box | det |
| 26 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 show | mark |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 console | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 console | mark |
| 33 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 show | nsubj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 console | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 console | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 show | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 show | aux |
| 38 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 show | obj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 portrait | det |
| 41 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 show | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Queen | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 44 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 portrait | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Beauty | case |
| 46 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Queen | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 did | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 did | cc |
| 49 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 51 did | advmod |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 did | nsubj |
| 51 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 54 recognised | advmod |
| 53 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 54 recognised | nsubj |
| 54 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 did | conj |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 Graciosa | det |
| 56 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Graciosa | compound |
| 57 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 recognised | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | one by one | against King; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | vanquish | past | one by one | knights = knight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | past | King | the box | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | one by one not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | show | would | console knights | knights = knight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient portrait=Topic | ||||
| 6 | do | past | King | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | recognise | past | everyone | the Princess Graciosa | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer graciosa=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | portray | King's Queen of Beauty | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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