The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 37
At length this royal assembly began to sport and play at all kinds of diversions, and the Queen very cunningly challenged the three Princes to play at cards with her, making bargain with them as she had been instructed.
Who acts: royal assembly, Queen · What happens: begin, play, challenge, make, instruct · To what, where: length, kinds, three Princes, cards, bargain, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal assembly, Queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 assembly | det |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 assembly | amod |
| 5 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sport | case |
| 8 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 play | cc |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 kinds | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 kinds | det |
| 13 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 play | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 diversions | case |
| 15 | diversions | diversion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kinds | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 challenged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 challenged | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 challenged | nsubj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 cunningly | advmod |
| 21 | cunningly | cunningly | ADV | _ | 22 challenged | advmod |
| 22 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Princes | det |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 Princes | nummod |
| 25 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 challenged | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 play | mark |
| 27 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 challenged | ccomp |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 cards | case |
| 29 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 play | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 play | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 making | punct |
| 33 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 play | advcl |
| 34 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 making | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 making | obl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 instructed | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 instructed | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 instructed | aux:pass |
| 41 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 making | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | this royal assembly | length | to sport | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | play | infinitive | this royal assembly not said here | all kinds of diversions | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | challenge | past | the Queen | the three Princes | cunningly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | cards | with Queen | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | make | gerund | the Queen not said here | bargain | with cards = card | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product | |||
| 6 | instruct speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Queen | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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