The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 114
Various princesses were proposed to him, and the fairy, who was anxious to get the affair over before she left the Court for ever, gave it as her opinion that the Princess Diaphana would make the most suitable wife.
Who acts: fairy, Princess Diaphana · What happens: propose, be, get over, leave, give, make · To what, where: Various princesses, king, affair, Court, suitable wife
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, Princess Diaphana), 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 | Various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 princesses | amod |
| 2 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 proposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proposed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fairy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fairy | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairy | det |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proposed | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 anxious | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 anxious | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 anxious | cop |
| 14 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fairy | amod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 anxious | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 affair | det |
| 18 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 left | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proposed | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Court | det |
| 24 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 left | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | obj |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 opinion | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 32 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Diaphana | det |
| 35 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Diaphana | compound |
| 36 | Diaphana | Diaphana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 make | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 make | aux |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 opinion | acl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 wife | det |
| 40 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 suitable | advmod |
| 41 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 wife | amod |
| 42 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 make | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past · passive | Various princesses | king | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the fairy | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get over | to-infinitive | the fairy not said here | the affair | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affair=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | leave | past | fairy | the Court | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent court=Theme for ever=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | give | past | fairy not said here | Court | as fairy's opinion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | make | would | the Princess Diaphana | the suitable wife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Product | ||||
| 7 | opine | fairy | nom opinion «cognition 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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