The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 78
It was decided to risk doing so, and the horse-shoer was led into the king’s chamber, where he had no sooner called the bird by its name than it began to sing and the princess to smile.
Who acts: shoer, stranger · What happens: decide, risk, do, lead, have, call · To what, where: stranger, horse shoer, chamber, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoer, stranger), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | aux:pass |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 risk | mark |
| 5 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 risk | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 doing | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shoer | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoer | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 horse | punct |
| 13 | shoer | shoer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | aux:pass |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 decided | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 chamber | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 had | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 sooner | det |
| 26 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 called | advmod |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 had | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bird | det |
| 29 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 name | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 name | nmod:poss |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obl |
| 33 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 35 began | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 began | nsubj |
| 35 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 sing | mark |
| 37 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 began | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 princess | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 princess | det |
| 40 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sing | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 smile | mark |
| 42 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 princess | acl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · passive | stranger | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | risk not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lead | past · passive | the horse shoer | the king's chamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into chamber=Destination | ||||
| 5 | have | past | shoer | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | call | participle | shoer not said here | the bird | by stranger's name; soon property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | |||
| 7 | begin | past | stranger | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | smile | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | name | stranger | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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