The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 16
The king sent back the bride he had promised to wed to her own country, and the same Catherine was queen at the marriage feast instead, and lived happy and contented to the end of her life.
Who acts: king · What happens: send back, promise, wed, be, live, content · To what, where: bride, Catherine queen, marriage feast
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bride | det |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 promised | aux |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 bride | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wed | mark |
| 11 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 country | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 queen | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 queen | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Catherine | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Catherine | amod |
| 20 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 queen | compound |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 queen | cop |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 feast | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 feast | det |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 feast | compound |
| 26 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 queen | nmod |
| 27 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 26 feast | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lived | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lived | cc |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | parataxis |
| 31 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lived | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 contented | cc |
| 33 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 lived | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 end | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 end | det |
| 36 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 contented | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 life | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 end | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send back | past | the king | the bride | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | king | the bride not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wed not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | to bride's own country | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to country=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Catherine queen | the marriage feast | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live | past | happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | content | participle | to the end of bride's life | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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