The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 215
‘The Prince will be clever if he finds his bride.’
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, find · To what, where: bride
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 (Prince), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 clever | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clever | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 clever | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 clever | cop |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 finds | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 9 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clever | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bride | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finds | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clever | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the Prince | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | Prince | Prince's bride | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic |
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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