The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 126
The lindorm came to the palace and received a bride of this kind, but in the morning she lay torn in pieces.
Who acts: lindorm · What happens: come, receive, tear · To what, where: palace, bride, pieces
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 (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 | 2 lindorm | det |
| 2 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 received | cc |
| 8 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bride | det |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 received | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kind | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bride | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 torn | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 torn | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morning | det |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 torn | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 torn | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 torn | aux:pass |
| 21 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pieces | case |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 torn | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the lindorm | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the lindorm not said here | a bride of this kind | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tear | past · passive | bride | pieces | morning | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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