The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 1
The young man was puzzled, and did not know what to reply, for, though he would gladly have married the princess without a sixpence, he had spent all his money in building the ship, and knew he could not give her all she wanted.
Who acts: man, princess · What happens: puzzle, not know, reply, marry, spend, build · To what, where: young man, man, money, ship, all, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, princess), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puzzled | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 puzzled | aux:pass |
| 5 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 puzzled | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 reply | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 reply | mark |
| 13 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 married | mark |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 married | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 married | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 married | aux |
| 20 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 22 married | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 married | aux |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 reply | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 married | obj |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 sixpence | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sixpence | det |
| 27 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 married | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 spent | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 spent | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 spent | aux |
| 31 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 married | conj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 money | det:predet |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 money | nmod:poss |
| 34 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spent | obj |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 building | mark |
| 36 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 spent | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ship | det |
| 38 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 building | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 knew | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 knew | cc |
| 41 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 puzzled | conj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 give | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 give | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 give | advmod |
| 45 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 knew | ccomp |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 give | iobj |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 give | obj |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 wanted | nsubj |
| 49 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 all | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle | past · passive | the young man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | marry | would · perfect · passive | man | without a sixpence; gladly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spend | past · perfect | man | man's money | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | ||||
| 6 | build | gerund | man not said here | the ship | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product | ||||
| 7 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | not give | could | man | all | princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient all=Theme | |||
| 9 | want | past | princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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