The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 99
Now the king was enchanted to see him so soon, and took the veil from Ciccu and flung it over the princess, crying, ‘Here is the veil you asked for, so I claim you for my wife.’
Who acts: veil, you, I · What happens: enchant, see, take, fling, cry, be · To what, where: king, veil, Ciccu, you
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 (veil, you, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 enchanted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enchanted | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 see | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 veil | det |
| 15 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Ciccu | case |
| 17 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flung | cc |
| 19 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flung | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 princess | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flung | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crying | punct |
| 25 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 flung | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Here | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Here | punct |
| 28 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 flung | conj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Here | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 veil | det |
| 31 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Here | nsubj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 asked | nsubj |
| 33 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 veil | acl:relcl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 asked | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 claim | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 claim | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 claim | nsubj |
| 38 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | parataxis |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 claim | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 wife | case |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 wife | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 claim | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enchanted | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | the king | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | king | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the veil | Ciccu | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent veil=Theme from ciccu=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | fling | past | veil | over the princess | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over princess=Destination | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | the veil | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | you | the veil not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent veil=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | claim speech: other | present | I | you | for my wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
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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