The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 50
The King embraced his daughter, and allowed that he had been wrong to misinterpret her words.
Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: embrace, allow, be, misinterpret, word · To what, where: daughter, words
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 allowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 allowed | cc |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 wrong | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wrong | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wrong | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 wrong | cop |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 allowed | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 misinterpret | mark |
| 15 | misinterpret | misinterpret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wrong | csubj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 words | nmod:poss |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 misinterpret | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | the King | King's daughter | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | allow | past | the King not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | King | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | misinterpret | to-infinitive | Princess's words | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | word | Princess | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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