The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 72
But when the Prince wanted to reach her her gold shoe, she said:
Who acts: Prince, Kari · What happens: want, reach, say · To what, where: gold shoe, Kari · 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 (Prince, Kari), 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 | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 wanted | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reach | mark |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reach | obj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shoe | compound |
| 11 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the Prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | Kari's gold shoe | Kari | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary shoe=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Kari | 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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