The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 3
‘The King’s daughter was long ago promised away to three Trolls, and next Thursday evening one of them is to come to fetch her.
What happens: promise, be, fetch · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 promised | aux:pass |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 promised | advmod |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 promised | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Trolls | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Trolls | nummod |
| 13 | Trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 away | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 come | cc |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evening | amod |
| 17 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 evening | compound |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 evening | flat |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | cop |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fetch | mark |
| 26 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 come | xcomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fetch | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · passive | the King's daughter | ago, away property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | evening | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | daughter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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