The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 110
‘That is not enough,’ exclaimed the princess when she saw the ring; ‘before we can be man and wife, the oven must be heated for three days and three nights, and Ciccu must jump in.’
Who acts: That, princess, we, Ciccu · What happens: not be, exclaim, see, be, heat, jump in · To what, where: princess, ring, oven
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, princess, we, Ciccu), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 enough | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 enough | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 heated | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 heated | punct |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 man | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 man | cop |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heated | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wife | cc |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 oven | det |
| 27 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 heated | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 heated | aux:pass |
| 30 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 days | case |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 days | nummod |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 heated | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 nights | cc |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 nights | nummod |
| 36 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 days | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 jump | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 jump | cc |
| 39 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 jump | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 jump | aux |
| 41 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enough | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADV | _ | 41 jump | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | That | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past | princess | the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | can | we | before man and wife | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | heat | must · passive | the oven | day | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | jump in | must | Ciccu | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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