The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 15
His parents were a King and Queen, whose story you will perhaps read some day.
Who acts: parents, you · What happens: be, read · To what, where: King, story
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, you), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 King | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 King | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Queen | cc |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 story | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 story | nmod:poss |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 King | appos |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 read | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 read | aux |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 14 read | advmod |
| 14 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 story | acl:relcl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 read | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thing's parents | a King and Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | future | you | a King and Queen's story not said here | day | perhaps property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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