The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 25
At last they bethought themselves of telling the King that the youth had said that, if he chose, he was quite able to rescue the Princess who had been carried off into the mountain a long time ago by the Troll.
Who acts: people, King, Troll · What happens: bethink, tell, say, choose, be, rescue · To what, where: people, last, King, youth, Princess, mountain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (people, King, Troll), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bethought | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bethought | nsubj |
| 4 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 bethought | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 telling | mark |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 bethought | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 telling | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 able | mark |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 that | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 chose | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 chose | nsubj |
| 19 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 able | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 chose | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 able | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 able | cop |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 able | advmod |
| 24 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rescue | mark |
| 26 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Princess | det |
| 28 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rescue | obj |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 carried | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 carried | aux:pass |
| 32 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 carried | compound:prt |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 mountain | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mountain | det |
| 36 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carried | obl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 32 carried | advmod |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 Troll | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Troll | det |
| 43 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carried | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | people | people | last | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | people not said here | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | choose a condition, not said to happen | past | King | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | King | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | rescue | to-infinitive | King not said here | the Princess | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 7 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | the Troll | the Princess | the mountain | ago property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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