The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 38
Next Sunday some one had to take up a towel to the Prince.
Who acts: Next Sunday · What happens: have, take up · To what, where: towel, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Next Sunday), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Sunday | amod |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 towel | det |
| 10 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Prince | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Next Sunday | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take up | to-infinitive | Next Sunday not said here | a towel | the Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towel=Theme to prince=Destination |
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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