The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 82
So she resolved to consult an Enchanter of whom she had heard a great deal since she had been a shepherdess, and without saying a word to anybody she set out to find the castle in which he lived with his sister, who was a powerful Fairy.
Who acts: Princess, enchanter, sister · What happens: resolve, consult, hear, be, say, set out · To what, where: Enchanter, great deal, shepherdess, word, anybody, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess, enchanter, sister), 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 | _ | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 consult | mark |
| 5 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | xcomp |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Enchanter | det |
| 7 | Enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consult | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 Enchanter | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 whom | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 16 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 21 shepherdess | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shepherdess | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 shepherdess | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 shepherdess | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shepherdess | det |
| 21 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saying | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saying | cc |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 saying | mark |
| 25 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 resolved | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 word | det |
| 27 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saying | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 anybody | case |
| 29 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 word | nmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 set | nsubj |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 word | acl:relcl |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 set | compound:prt |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 find | mark |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 set | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 castle | det |
| 36 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 find | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 lived | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 lived | nsubj |
| 40 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 castle | acl:relcl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 sister | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 sister | nmod:poss |
| 43 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lived | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Fairy | punct |
| 45 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 Fairy | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 Fairy | cop |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 Fairy | det |
| 48 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Fairy | amod |
| 49 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sister | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consult | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | a Enchanter | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchanter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Princess | a great deal | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | Princess | a shepherdess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | Princess not said here | a word | anybody | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to anybody=Recipient | |||
| 6 | set out | past | Princess | a word not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the castle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic | ||||
| 8 | live | past | enchanter | the castle | with enchanter's sister and a powerful Fairy | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 9 | is a | past | enchanter's sister and a powerful Fairy | a powerful Fairy | 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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