The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 82
As soon as she is born, she must have a nurse, whom I shall provide, and this nurse must live with the child in a secluded part of the palace; no other person must visit the child; neither the king nor the queen must see it until it is fourteen years old, for that would cause great sorrow and misfortune.’
Who acts: majesty, I, nurse, other person, king, that · What happens: bear, have, provide, live, visit, see · To what, where: majesty, nurse, secluded part, child, person, great sorrow
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, I, nurse, other person), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 have | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 born | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 have | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nurse | det |
| 12 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 provide | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 provide | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 provide | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 provide | aux |
| 17 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 live | cc |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 nurse | det |
| 21 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 live | aux |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 child | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 child | det |
| 26 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 part | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 part | det |
| 29 | secluded | secluded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 part | amod |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 part | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 visit | punct |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 person | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 person | amod |
| 37 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 visit | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 visit | aux |
| 39 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 child | det |
| 41 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 visit | obj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 see | punct |
| 43 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 45 king | cc:preconj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 king | det |
| 45 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 see | nsubj |
| 46 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 48 queen | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 queen | det |
| 48 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 king | conj |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 see | aux |
| 50 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | conj |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 see | obj |
| 52 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 57 old | mark |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 old | nsubj |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 old | cop |
| 55 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 years | nummod |
| 56 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 old | obl:unmarked |
| 57 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 see | advcl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 cause | punct |
| 59 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 62 cause | mark |
| 60 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 62 cause | nsubj |
| 61 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 cause | aux |
| 62 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 see | parataxis |
| 63 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 sorrow | amod |
| 64 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 cause | obj |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 misfortune | cc |
| 66 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 sorrow | conj |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 see | punct |
| 68 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · passive | majesty | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | must | majesty | a nurse | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Patient | |||
| 3 | provide | shall | I | a nurse | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition whom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | must | this nurse | a secluded part of the palace | with the child | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with child=Location | |||
| 5 | visit | must | no other person | the child | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | see | must | the king nor the queen | person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is | present | nurse | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | cause | would | that | great sorrow and misfortune | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sorrow=Patient |
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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