The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 58
The page who brought it begged him to accept it from the Princess, who chose him to be her knight.
Who acts: page, Princess · What happens: bring, beg, accept, choose, be · To what, where: page, King, knight
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 (page, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 page | det |
| 2 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 page | acl:relcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begged | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 accept | mark |
| 9 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begged | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 accept | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 accept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chose | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 chose | nsubj |
| 16 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 chose | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 knight | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 knight | cop |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 knight | nmod:poss |
| 21 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chose | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the page | page | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the page | King | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | accept not said to happen | to-infinitive | the page not said here | page | from the Princess | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from princess=Source | |||
| 4 | choose | past | the Princess | King | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | Princess's knight | 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 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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