The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 26
The wicked sister was put into a barrel with spikes round it which was dragged off by six wild horses, and so she came to her end.:But the king was delighted with Maiden Bright-eye, and immediately made her his queen, while her brother became his prime minister.
Who acts: six wild horses, sister, king, brother · What happens: put, drag off, come, be, make, become · To what, where: wicked sister, barrel, spikes, end, queen, sister
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 (six wild horses, sister, king, brother), 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 sister | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 barrel | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 barrel | det |
| 8 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 spikes | case |
| 10 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spikes | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dragged | aux:pass |
| 15 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 spikes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 dragged | compound:prt |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 horses | case |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 horses | nummod |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 horses | amod |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dragged | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 end | nmod:poss |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | .: | .: | SYM | _ | 25 came | discourse |
| 30 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 delighted | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 delighted | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 delighted | cop |
| 34 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 put | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 eye | case |
| 36 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 eye | compound |
| 37 | Bright | Bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Maiden | flat |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Maiden | punct |
| 39 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 delighted | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 made | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 made | cc |
| 42 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 43 made | advmod |
| 43 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 made | obj |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 queen | nmod:poss |
| 46 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 made | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 became | punct |
| 48 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 51 became | mark |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 brother | nmod:poss |
| 50 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 became | nsubj |
| 51 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 made | conj |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 minister | nmod:poss |
| 53 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 minister | amod |
| 54 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 became | xcomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the wicked sister | a barrel | with spikes round barrel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 2 | drag off | past · passive | six wild horses | spikes round barrel | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | sister | to sister's end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the king | with Maiden eye; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | past | eye's queen | sister | immediately property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary queen=Product | |||
| 6 | become | past | sister's brother | eye's prime minister | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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