The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 174
He drank their health, and then slipped the ring which the Princess had put on his finger when they were sitting by the waterside into the glass, and ordered the cup-bearer to carry the glass to the bride from him and greet her.
Who acts: Halvor, girls, cup bearer · What happens: drink, slip, put, sit, order, carry · To what, where: health, ring, finger, glass, cup bearer, bride
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, girls, cup bearer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 health | nmod:poss |
| 4 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drank | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slipped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slipped | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 slipped | advmod |
| 8 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slipped | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 put | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 put | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | aux |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ring | acl:relcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 finger | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 finger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 sitting | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sitting | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sitting | aux |
| 22 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 put | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 waterside | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 waterside | det |
| 25 | waterside | waterside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sitting | obl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 glass | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 glass | det |
| 28 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sitting | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ordered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ordered | cc |
| 31 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bearer | det |
| 33 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bearer | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 cup | punct |
| 35 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ordered | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 carry | mark |
| 37 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 ordered | xcomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 glass | det |
| 39 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carry | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 bride | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 bride | det |
| 42 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carry | obl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 carry | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 greet | cc |
| 46 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 carry | conj |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 greet | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | Halvor | girls's health | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | the ring | then | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | past · perfect · passive | the ring | Halvor's finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on finger=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sit | past · progressive | girls = girl | the glass | by the waterside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by waterside=Location | |||
| 5 | order | past | the cup bearer | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bearer=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cup bearer not said here | the glass | the bride | from Halvor | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent glass=Theme to bride=Destination from he=Initial_Location | ||
| 7 | greet speech: greet | infinitive | the cup bearer not said here | Princess | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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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