The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 68
The Princess sent to each of the fairies a new spinning-wheel with a distaff of cedar wood, and the Queen said she must look through her treasures and find something very charming to send them also.
Who acts: Princess, Queen, something · What happens: send, say, look, find, treasure · To what, where: each, something, treasures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Princess, Queen, something), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fairies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairies | det |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 each | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wheel | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wheel | amod |
| 11 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wheel | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 spinning | punct |
| 13 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fairies | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 distaff | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distaff | det |
| 16 | distaff | distaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wheel | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wood | compound |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 distaff | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 look | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 look | aux |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 treasures | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 30 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 look | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 find | cc |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 look | conj |
| 33 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 find | obj |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 charming | advmod |
| 35 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 something | amod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 send | mark |
| 37 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 charming | xcomp |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 send | obj |
| 39 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 send | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Princess | each | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to each=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | must | Princess | through Princess's treasures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | present | Princess not said here | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 5 | send | to-infinitive | something not said here | treasures = treasure | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | treasure | Princess | nom treasure «possession 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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