The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 68
The whole of the royal family came down to the ship to receive him, and the whole way the queen and the elder princess teased the sister about the dirty husband she was going to have.
Who acts: whole, queen · What happens: come down, receive, tease, go, have · To what, where: ship, hair, whole way, sister
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 family | amod |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whole | obl |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 receive | mark |
| 13 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 receive | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 going | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 going | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 going | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 queen | det |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 teased | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 princess | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princess | det |
| 24 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 princess | amod |
| 25 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 queen | conj |
| 26 | teased | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sister | det |
| 28 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 teased | iobj |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 husband | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 husband | det |
| 31 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 husband | amod |
| 32 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 teased | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 going | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 going | aux |
| 35 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 have | mark |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 going | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the whole | the ship | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | the whole not said here | hair | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tease | past | the queen and the elder princess | the whole way not said here | the sister | about the dirty husband | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | queen | the whole way | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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