The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 6
When she now heard that there was in the king’s palace a lindorm which tore in pieces all the women that were married to him, and demanded a beautiful maiden for his bride, she went to the king, and said that her stepdaughter wished to wed the lindorm, so that the country’s only prince might travel and seek a bride.
Who acts: stepmother, stepdaughter, prince · What happens: hear, be, marry, demand, go, say · To what, where: palace, women, king, beautiful maiden, lindorm, 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 (stepmother, stepdaughter, prince), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 went | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lindorm | det |
| 14 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 15 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 16 tore | det |
| 16 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lindorm | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pieces | case |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 women | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 women | det |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 married | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 married | aux:pass |
| 24 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 women | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 married | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 demanded | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 demanded | cc |
| 29 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 maiden | det |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 maiden | amod |
| 32 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 demanded | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 bride | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bride | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 maiden | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 went | nsubj |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 king | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 king | det |
| 41 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 said | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 said | cc |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 went | conj |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 wished | mark |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 47 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 wished | nsubj |
| 48 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 said | ccomp |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 wed | mark |
| 50 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 wished | xcomp |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 lindorm | det |
| 52 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 wed | obj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 ’s | punct |
| 54 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 58 ’s | mark |
| 55 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 54 so | fixed |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 country | det |
| 57 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 ’s | nsubj |
| 58 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 wished | conj |
| 59 | only | only | ADV | _ | 60 prince | advmod |
| 60 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 travel | nsubj |
| 61 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 travel | aux |
| 62 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 ’s | ccomp |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 seek | cc |
| 64 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 62 travel | conj |
| 65 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 66 bride | det |
| 66 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 seek | obj |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | stepmother | the king's palace | now | in pieces | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | be | past | stepmother not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | all women | king | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to he=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | stepmother not said here | a beautiful maiden | for king's bride | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme maiden=Precondition | |||
| 5 | go | past | stepmother | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | stepmother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | wish | past | stepmother's stepdaughter | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | wed not said to happen | to-infinitive | stepmother's stepdaughter not said here | the lindorm | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lindorm=Patient | ||||
| 9 | travel | might | prince | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | seek | infinitive | prince not said here | a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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