The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 69
‘What can be the reason for keeping that lovely Princess a prisoner?’ cried the King in great indignation.
Who acts: reason · What happens: be, keep, cry · To what, where: reason, lovely Princess, great indignation
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 (reason), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 reason | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 reason | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 keeping | mark |
| 8 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 reason | acl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Princess | nsubj |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Princess | amod |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prisoner | det |
| 13 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 reason | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 reason | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 indignation | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 indignation | amod |
| 21 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | the reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the reason not said here | lovely Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the reason | great indignation | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in indignation=Location |
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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