The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 71
This he presented to the Prince, who guessed by this time that he was in some way to break the enchantment that surrounded the sleeping lady.
Who acts: This, prince · What happens: present, guess, be, break, surround · To what, where: Prince, way, enchantment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (This, prince), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 presented | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 presented | nsubj |
| 3 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 presented | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 guessed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 guessed | nsubj |
| 9 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 presented | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guessed | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 way | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 way | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 way | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guessed | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 break | mark |
| 20 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 way | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 enchantment | det |
| 22 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 break | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 enchantment | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 26 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lady | compound |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surrounded | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | This | the Prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | guess | past | time | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | prince | some way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break | to-infinitive | the enchantment | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantment=Patient | |||||
| 5 | surround | participle · passive | the enchantment | tree rules |
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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