The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 57
We both loved the same Fairy, but she preferred me.
Who acts: We, Princess · What happens: love, prefer · To what, where: same Fairy, me
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 (We, Princess), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 loved | advmod |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fairy | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Fairy | amod |
| 6 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 preferred | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 preferred | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 preferred | nsubj |
| 10 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 preferred | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | We | the same Fairy | both property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | prefer | past | Princess | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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