The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 94
They are princes and princesses who have happened to offend me.
Who acts: creatures, princesses · What happens: be, happen, offend · To what, where: princes, 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 (creatures, princesses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 princes | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 princes | cop |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 princesses | cc |
| 5 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 princes | conj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 princesses | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 offend | mark |
| 10 | offend | offend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happened | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 offend | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 princes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | creatures = creature | princes and princesses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | present · perfect | princesses | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | offend | to-infinitive | princesses not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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