The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 175
Then the Princess at once rose up from the table, and said, ‘Who is most worthy to have one of us—he who has delivered us from the Trolls or he who is sitting here as bridegroom?’
Who acts: Princess, Halvor · What happens: rise up, say, be, have, deliver, sit · To what, where: table, one, Halvor, Trolls · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess, Halvor), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 rose | obl |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 rose | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 worthy | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 worthy | punct |
| 16 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 worthy | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 worthy | cop |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 worthy | amod |
| 19 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 worthy | advcl |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 delivered | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 delivered | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 delivered | aux |
| 29 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 delivered | obj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 Trolls | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Trolls | det |
| 33 | Trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 delivered | obl |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 sitting | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sitting | nsubj |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 sitting | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 sitting | aux |
| 38 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 delivered | conj |
| 39 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 sitting | advmod |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 bridegroom | case |
| 41 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sitting | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the Princess | the table | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | worthy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | one of us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 5 | deliver | present · perfect · passive | Halvor | the Trolls | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary we=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sit | present · progressive | Halvor | here | as bridegroom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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