The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 32
The Fairy made her mount beside her in the golden chariot, and took her on board the Admiral’s ship, where she bade her farewell, sending many messages of friendship to the Queen, and bidding the Princess tell her that she was the fifth Fairy who had attended the christening.
Who acts: Fairy, toad, bidding, fifth Fairy · What happens: make, take, bade, send, bid, tell · To what, where: mount, golden chariot, toad, ship, farewell, many messages · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fairy, toad, bidding, fifth Fairy), 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 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | 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 mount | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chariot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chariot | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chariot | amod |
| 11 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ship | case |
| 17 | board | board | ADP | _ | 21 ship | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Admiral | det |
| 19 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ship | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Admiral | case |
| 21 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bade | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 bade | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bade | nsubj |
| 25 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 farewell | nmod:poss |
| 27 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bade | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sending | punct |
| 29 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 bade | advcl |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 messages | amod |
| 31 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sending | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 friendship | case |
| 33 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 messages | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Queen | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Queen | det |
| 36 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sending | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 tell | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 tell | cc |
| 39 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 tell | csubj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Princess | det |
| 41 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 bidding | obj |
| 42 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 tell | iobj |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 Fairy | mark |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 Fairy | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 Fairy | cop |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Fairy | det |
| 48 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Fairy | amod |
| 49 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tell | ccomp |
| 50 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 attended | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 attended | aux |
| 52 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 christening | det |
| 54 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 attended | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Fairy | toad's mount | the golden chariot | beside toad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mount=Product | ||
| 2 | take | past | toad | the Admiral's ship | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bade | past | toad | toad's farewell | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | gerund | toad not said here | many messages of friendship | the Queen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to queen=Destination | |||
| 5 | bid | gerund | the Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | present | bidding | toad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | toad | the fifth Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | attend | past · perfect | the fifth Fairy | the christening | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme christening=Goal |
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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