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The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 137

‘Well, then, my charming Zizi,’ said the young Prince, who was longing to marry her, ‘let us ride away quickly so as to escape from the wicked witch.’

Who acts: Zizi, young Prince, us · What happens: say, long, marry, let, ride away, escape · To what, where: Zizi, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zizi, young Prince, us), 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

punctdiscoursepunctadvmodpunctnmod:possnmod:descnsubjpunctpunctdetamodccomppunctnsubjauxconjmarkxcompobjpunctpunctccompobjxcompadvmodadvmodadvmodmarkmarkadvclcasedetamodoblpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCTthenADV,PUNCTmyPRONcharmingNOUNZiziPROPN,PUNCT’PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETyoungADJPrincePROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXlongingVERBtoPARTmarryVERBherPRON,PUNCT‘PUNCTletVERBusPRONrideVERBawayADVquicklyADVsoADVasSCONJtoPARTescapeVERBfromADPtheDETwickedADJwitchNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_11 saidpunct
2WellwellINTJ_11 saiddiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Wellpunct
4thenthenADVPronType=Dem8 Ziziadvmod
5,,PUNCT_4 thenpunct
6mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 charmingnmod:poss
7charmingcharmingNOUNNumber=Sing8 Zizinmod:desc
8ZiziZiziPROPNNumber=Sing11 saidnsubj
9,,PUNCT_8 Zizipunct
10’'PUNCT_8 Zizipunct
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Princedet
13youngyoungADJDegree=Pos14 Princeamod
14PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing11 saidccomp
15,,PUNCT_18 longingpunct
16whowhoPRONPronType=Rel18 longingnsubj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 longingaux
18longinglongVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 Princeconj
19totoPART_20 marrymark
20marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf18 longingxcomp
21hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 marryobj
22,,PUNCT_24 letpunct
23‘'PUNCT_24 letpunct
24letletVERBVerbForm=Inf11 saidccomp
25uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs24 letobj
26riderideVERBVerbForm=Inf24 letxcomp
27awayawayADV_26 rideadvmod
28quicklyquicklyADV_26 rideadvmod
29sosoADV_32 escapeadvmod
30asasSCONJ_32 escapemark
31totoPART_32 escapemark
32escapeescapeVERBVerbForm=Inf26 rideadvcl
33fromfromADP_36 witchcase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 witchdet
35wickedwickedADJDegree=Pos36 witchamod
36witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing32 escapeobl
37..PUNCT_11 saidpunct
38’'PUNCT_11 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastZizi my charmingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2longpast · progressivethe young Princevn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3marry not said to happento-infinitivethe young Prince not said hereZizivn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4letinfinitiveustree rules
5ride awayinfinitiveus not said hereaway, quickly propertyvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6escapeto-infinitiveus not said herefrom the wicked witchvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from witch=Initial_Location

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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