The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 61
There a Princess was sitting, who was so beautiful that there was never anyone to equal her.
Who acts: Princess, anyone · What happens: sit, be, equal · To what, where: Princess
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, anyone), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 a | expl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sitting | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | advcl |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 anyone | advmod |
| 15 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 equal | mark |
| 17 | equal | equal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 anyone | acl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 equal | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | a Princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | anyone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | equal | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | Princess | 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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