The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 27
King Charming then asked it there was not another Princess, called Fiordelisa.
Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: ask, be, call · To what, where: ugliness, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | obj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 Princess | advmod |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Princess | acl |
| 13 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | King | ugliness | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | be | past | another Princess | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | another Princess not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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