The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 47
Then she tied a ring in his hair, which had her name upon it, and wished herself at home again.
Who acts: Queen, hair · What happens: tie, have, wish, name · To what, where: ring, hair, name, Queen, home
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 (Queen, hair), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tied | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hair | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wished | cc |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 wished | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wished | obl |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 wished | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | Queen | a ring | King's hair | then | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | ||
| 2 | have | past | King's hair | Queen's name | upon hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 3 | wish | past | Queen not said here | Queen | home | again | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme | ||
| 4 | name | Queen | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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