The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 17
When these arrived at the palace with the beautiful young maiden everyone pitied her fate; but she herself was of good courage, and asked the queen for another bridal chamber than the one the lindorm had had before.
Who acts: these, everyone, girl, lindorm · What happens: arrive, pity, be, ask, have, fate · To what, where: palace, fate, queen, one
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, everyone, girl, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 pitied | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 everyone | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 everyone | amod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 everyone | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 everyone | amod |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 pitied | nsubj |
| 13 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fate | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pitied | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 courage | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 courage | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 courage | nsubj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 she | conj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 courage | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 courage | case |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 courage | amod |
| 23 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 asked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 asked | cc |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asked | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 chamber | case |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 chamber | det |
| 31 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 chamber | amod |
| 32 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 queen | nmod |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 chamber | nmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lindorm | det |
| 37 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 had | aux |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 one | acl:relcl |
| 40 | before | before | ADV | _ | 39 had | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | participle | these | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pity | past | everyone | girl's fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | of good courage | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | these not said here | the queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | have | past · perfect | the lindorm | the one not said here | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 6 | fate | girl | nom fate «event 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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