The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 8
And the maiden said ‘yes, she would,’ and so they were married.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: say, marry · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 would | punct |
| 6 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 would | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 yes | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 would | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 would | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 would | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 married | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 married | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 married | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | hands = hand | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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