The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 15

And this was the bed in which the Princess was to sleep.

Who acts: this, Princess · What happens: be · To what, where: bed

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 bed	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bed	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sleep	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sleep	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bed	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the bed					tree rules
2	is	past	the Princess			the bed		sleep 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 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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