The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 123
The same thing happened on the third day when the prince tried to get past: the lindorm said, with a threatening voice, that before the prince could get a bride he himself must find a mate.
Who acts: same thing, prince, lindorm · What happens: happen, try, get past, say, get, find · To what, where: that, mate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same thing, prince, lindorm), 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 thing | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 tried | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 day | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | past | past | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lindorm | det |
| 18 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 voice | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 voice | det |
| 23 | threatening | threatening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 voice | compound |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 get | punct |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 get | obj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 prince | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 get | obl |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 get | aux |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 voice | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bride | det |
| 33 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 get | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 find | nsubj |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 34 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 find | aux |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 bride | acl:relcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 mate | det |
| 39 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 find | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the prince | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get past not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | past property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the lindorm | with a threatening voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with voice=Manner | ||||
| 5 | get | could | the lindorm not said here | that | before the prince | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary bride=Theme | |||
| 6 | find | must | prince | a mate | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |
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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