The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 177
‘Yes, he is the right one,’ cried the youngest Princess when she caught sight of him; so she flung the other out of the window and held her wedding with Halvor.
Who acts: Halvor, right one, Princess · What happens: be, cry, catch, fling, hold, sight · To what, where: right one, youngest Princess, sight, other, window, wedding
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, right one, Princess), 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 | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 one | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 Princess | amod |
| 14 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 caught | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | advcl |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sight | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 flung | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 flung | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flung | nsubj |
| 24 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 flung | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 window | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 window | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 window | det |
| 30 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flung | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 held | cc |
| 32 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 flung | conj |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 held | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 Halvor | case |
| 36 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 wedding | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Halvor | the right one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the right one | the youngest Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | Princess | sight of Halvor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fling | past | Princess | the other | the window | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent other=Theme out window=Destination | |||
| 5 | hold | past | Princess not said here | Princess's wedding | with Halvor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | |||
| 6 | sight | Halvor | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | wed | Princess | with Halvor | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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