The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 34
But before they entered the wood the Bull said to the King’s daughter:
Who acts: trees · What happens: enter, say · To what, where: wood, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 entered | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bull | det |
| 8 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | trees = tree | the wood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient |
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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