The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 68
‘When she told all the Court ladies, they were delighted.
Who acts: princess, ladies · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: Court ladies · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, ladies), 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 | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 told | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 ladies | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ladies | det |
| 7 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ladies | compound |
| 8 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 delighted | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 delighted | cop |
| 12 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | princess | all Court ladies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | ladies = lady | delighted 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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