The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 1
Upon this the Ambassador found his tongue, and replied gallantly that the Fairy had evidently foreseen the flames that would be kindled by the bright eyes of the Princess, and had sent this deluge to extinguish them.
Who acts: Ambassador, Fairy, bright eyes · What happens: find, reply, foresee, kindle, send, extinguish · To what, where: tongue, flames, deluge
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Ambassador, Fairy, bright eyes), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 found | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ambassador | det |
| 4 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 replied | cc |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 11 | gallantly | gallantly | ADV | _ | 10 replied | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 foreseen | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fairy | det |
| 14 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 foreseen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 foreseen | aux |
| 16 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 17 foreseen | advmod |
| 17 | foreseen | foresee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flames | det |
| 19 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 foreseen | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 kindled | obj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 kindled | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 kindled | aux:pass |
| 23 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 flames | acl:relcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eyes | det |
| 26 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 kindled | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Princess | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Princess | det |
| 30 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 eyes | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sent | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sent | cc |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sent | aux |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 found | conj |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 deluge | det |
| 36 | deluge | deluge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 extinguish | mark |
| 38 | extinguish | extinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sent | advcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 extinguish | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Ambassador | Ambassador's tongue | upon this | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Topic | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | gallantly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | foresee | past · perfect | the Fairy | the flames | evidently property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme | |||
| 4 | kindle | would · passive | the bright eyes of the Princess | the flames | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition that=Patient | ||||
| 5 | send | past · perfect | the Ambassador not said here | this deluge | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deluge=Theme | ||||
| 6 | extinguish | to-infinitive | the Ambassador not said here | flames = flame | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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