The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 62
‘In the kingdom in which we are now sitting lives a princess who is dreadfully clever.
Who acts: we, princess · What happens: sit, live, be · To what, where: kingdom, princess
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, princess), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 lives | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sitting | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sitting | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sitting | aux |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 sitting | advmod |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 11 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 clever | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 clever | cop |
| 16 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 17 clever | advmod |
| 17 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 princess | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present · progressive | we | the kingdom | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | |||
| 2 | live | present | a princess | the kingdom | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme princess=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a princess | clever, dreadfully 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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