The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 72
And the councillors cried with one voice, ‘Let her be your wife, and our liege lady.’
Who acts: councillors, wife · What happens: cry, let, be · To what, where: liege lady, maiden
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (councillors, wife), 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 | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 councillors | det |
| 3 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 voice | nummod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 10 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Let | obj |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Let | xcomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 be | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lady | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lady | cc |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lady | nmod:poss |
| 18 | liege | liege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lady | compound |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lady | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the councillors | our liege lady | with one voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the councillors not said here | maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | infinitive | your wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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