The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 31

The Princess was so rejoiced to be free that she danced and sang, but then she remembered her sisters, and said: ‘If my sisters were but free too!’

Who acts: Princess, sisters · What happens: rejoice, be, dance, sing, remember, say · To what, where: Princess, sisters · 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, sisters), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rejoiced	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rejoiced	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 rejoiced	advmod
5	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 free	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 free	cop
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rejoiced	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 danced	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 danced	nsubj
11	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 free	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sang	cc
13	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 danced	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remembered	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 remembered	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 remembered	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 remembered	nsubj
18	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rejoiced	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sisters	nmod:poss
20	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 remembered	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 remembered	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 free	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 free	punct
26	If	if	SCONJ	_	31 free	mark
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sisters	nmod:poss
28	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 free	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 free	cop
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 free	cc
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 said	ccomp
32	too	too	ADV	_	31 free	advmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 rejoiced	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past · passive		the Princess			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive				free property	tree rules
3	dance	past	Princess				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	Princess not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	remember	past	Princess	Princess's sisters	then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	my sisters			free property	tree rules

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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