The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 86
Soon after he heard that the Princess was ill, and that the only thing that did her good was having stories told to her.
Who acts: man, Princess, only thing · What happens: hear, be, do, have, tell · To what, where: Princess, stories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Princess, only thing), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 heard | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 ill | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ill | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ill | cop |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 having | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 having | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 having | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 having | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | obj |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 did | xcomp |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 having | aux |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | conj |
| 22 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 having | obj |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 stories | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | man | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Princess | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the only thing | Princess | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | have | past · progressive | the only thing | stories | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | participle | stories not said here | Princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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