The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 13
So the poor Princess was sent away in disgrace to her own apartments, and the ladies who attended upon her were charged to bring her to a better mind.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: send away, attend, charge, bring · To what, where: poor Princess, disgrace, ladies, Princess, better mind
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (ladies), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 disgrace | case |
| 9 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 apartments | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 apartments | amod |
| 13 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 charged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 charged | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ladies | det |
| 17 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 attended | nsubj |
| 19 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ladies | acl:relcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 attended | obl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 charged | aux:pass |
| 23 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sent | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bring | mark |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 charged | xcomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 mind | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mind | det |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 mind | amod |
| 30 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | past · passive | the poor Princess | disgrace | to Princess's own apartments; away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | attend | past | the ladies | upon Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | charge | past · passive | the ladies | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | Princess | a better mind | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to mind=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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