The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 50
While King Lindorm was away at the war the wicked woman came to the queen, and spoke fair to her, saying that she had always foreseen that her stepdaughter was destined to be something great in the world, and that she had on this account secured that she should be the enchanted prince’s bride.
Who acts: King, wicked woman, queen · What happens: be, come, speak, say, destine, have · To what, where: war, stepdaughter, something, account, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, wicked woman, queen), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 away | mark |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 away | nsubj |
| 3 | Lindorm | Lindorm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 away | cop |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 came | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 away | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 queen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spoke | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spoke | cc |
| 18 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spoke | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fair | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 spoke | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 foreseen | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 foreseen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 foreseen | aux |
| 27 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 foreseen | advmod |
| 28 | foreseen | foreseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 destined | mark |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 destined | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 destined | aux:pass |
| 33 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 foreseen | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 something | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 something | cop |
| 36 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 destined | obj |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 something | amod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 world | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 world | det |
| 40 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 great | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 secured | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 secured | cc |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 had | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 had | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 secured | advcl |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 account | case |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 account | det |
| 48 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 had | obl |
| 49 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 50 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 58 bride | mark |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 bride | nsubj |
| 52 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 bride | aux |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 bride | cop |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 prince | det |
| 55 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 prince | amod |
| 56 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 bride | nmod:poss |
| 57 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 56 prince | case |
| 58 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 secured | advcl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | the war | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | the wicked woman | to the queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to queen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the wicked woman not said here | fair property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the wicked woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | destine | past · passive | queen's stepdaughter | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | something | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have | past | queen | this account | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | secure | past | the wicked woman not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 10 | is a | should | queen | the enchanted prince's bride | tree rules |
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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