The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 19
The Princess thanked her heartily, and then the Fairy despatched one of her peacocks to her palace to bring a gorgeous robe for Mayblossom, who certainly needed it, for her own was torn to shreds by the thorns and briars.
Who acts: Princess, Fairy, gorgeous robe, thorns · What happens: thank, despatch, bring, need, tear · To what, where: heartily, one, gorgeous robe, Fairy, shreds
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Fairy, gorgeous robe, thorns), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heartily | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 despatched | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 despatched | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 despatched | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fairy | det |
| 10 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 despatched | nsubj |
| 11 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 despatched | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 peacocks | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 peacocks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 despatched | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 despatched | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 robe | det |
| 22 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 robe | amod |
| 23 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Mayblossom | case |
| 25 | Mayblossom | Mayblossom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 robe | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 needed | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 needed | nsubj |
| 28 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 29 needed | advmod |
| 29 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 robe | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 needed | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 own | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 own | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 own | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 torn | obl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 torn | aux:pass |
| 36 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 despatched | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 shreds | case |
| 38 | shreds | shred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 torn | obl |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 thorns | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 thorns | det |
| 41 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 torn | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 briars | cc |
| 43 | briars | briar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 thorns | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Princess | Dwarf's heartily | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartily=Theme | ||||
| 2 | despatch | past | the Fairy | one of Dwarf's peacocks | then | to Dwarf's palace | tree rules | ||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | a gorgeous robe | for Mayblossom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | |||
| 4 | need | past | a gorgeous robe | Fairy | certainly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 5 | tear | past · passive | the thorns and briars | shreds | for Dwarf's own | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shred=Destination |
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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