The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 73
The maiden fixed a large sum, many pieces of gold, but the princess had set her heart on the mantle, and gave it readily.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: fix, set, give · To what, where: large sum, princess, mantle, heart
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | nsubj |
| 3 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sum | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sum | amod |
| 6 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pieces | punct |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pieces | amod |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sum | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fixed | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 mantle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mantle | det |
| 22 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fixed | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | obj |
| 27 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 25 gave | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | the maiden | a large sum many pieces of gold | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sum=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set | past · perfect · passive | the princess | the mantle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the maiden not said here | heart | readily property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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