The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 14

‘Well, then,’ said the man, ‘if you walk on farther along the seashore here, you will come to three princesses who are standing in the earth so that their heads alone are out of it.

Who acts: you, three princesses, heads · What happens: say, walk, come, stand, be · To what, where: man, earth, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, three princesses, heads), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 walk	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 walk	nsubj
14	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 farther	case
16	farther	farther	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 walk	obl
17	along	along	ADP	_	19 seashore	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 seashore	det
19	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walk	obl
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 walk	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walk	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 princesses	case
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 princesses	nummod
27	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 come	obl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 standing	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 standing	aux
30	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 princesses	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 earth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 earth	det
33	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 standing	obl
34	so	so	SCONJ	_	42 it	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 it	mark
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 heads	nmod:poss
37	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 it	nsubj
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	37 heads	advmod
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 it	cop
40	out	out	ADP	_	42 it	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the man		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	present	you		here		along the seashore	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farther=Trajectory
3	come	future	you				to three princesses	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location
4	stand	present · progressive	three princesses		the earth			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location
5	is	present	princesses's heads		head			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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