The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 47

Now they could quite well understand that it was the god of the Turks himself who was to marry the princess.

Who acts: slippers, glitter, Turks · What happens: understand, be · To what, where: god · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slippers, glitter, Turks), 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	6 understand	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 understand	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 god	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 god	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 god	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 god	det
11	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Turks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Turks	det
14	Turks	Turk	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 god	nmod
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 Turks	nmod:unmarked
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 marry	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Turks	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 princess	det
21	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	could	slippers = slipper		now	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	glitter	the god		of the Turks maid	tree rules
3	is	past	the Turks maid			marry property	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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