The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 171
In this castle there lives a Princess, the wicked wife of my dear master.
What happens: live · To what, where: Princess, castle
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 castle | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lives | advmod |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wife | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wife | det |
| 10 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wife | amod |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Princess | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 master | amod |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a Princess and the wicked wife of my dear master | this castle; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme princess=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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