The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 70
To-morrow morning I have to go back there, for now the Queen, whose King is staying away, is to marry some one else.’
Who acts: I, King, Queen · What happens: have, go back, stay away, be
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 (I, King, Queen), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | compound |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | xcomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 there | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 marry | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 now | case |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 marry | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 marry | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 staying | punct |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 staying | nmod:poss |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 staying | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 staying | aux |
| 20 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 Queen | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 staying | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Queen | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 marry | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 marry | mark |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 marry | obj |
| 28 | else | else | ADV | _ | 27 one | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go back | to-infinitive | I not said here | there | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stay away | present · progressive | King | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the Queen | marry property | 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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