The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 1
She was now the most beautiful young princess that anyone could wish to see, and he was now lord of half the kingdom, which had been promised him for standing on guard the third nigh.
Who acts: She, anyone, he · What happens: be, wish, see, promise, stand · To what, where: beautiful young princess, lord, him, guard
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, anyone, he), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 princess | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 princess | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 princess | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 princess | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 princess | amod |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 wish | mark |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | aux |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 princess | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lord | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lord | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lord | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lord | cop |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lord | advmod |
| 20 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 22 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 24 kingdom | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kingdom | det |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lord | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 promised | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 promised | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 promised | aux:pass |
| 29 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lord | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 promised | iobj |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 standing | mark |
| 32 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 promised | advcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 guard | case |
| 34 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 standing | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 third | det |
| 36 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 standing | xcomp |
| 37 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 36 third | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | She | the beautiful young princess and lord | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wish | could | anyone | the beautiful young princess and lord not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | he | lord | now | of half kingdom | tree rules | ||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | lord | him = he | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | guard | third property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location |
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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