The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 4
‘Yes, now I see the castle quite near, and now it is much, much larger,’ said the King’s daughter.
Who acts: I, castle, daughter · What happens: see, be, say · To what, where: castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, castle, daughter), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 see | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 near | advmod |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 larger | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 larger | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 larger | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 larger | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 larger | cop |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 larger | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 larger | punct |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 larger | advmod |
| 19 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 see | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 larger | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 King | case |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | the castle | now | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is | present | castle | now | large property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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