The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 104
I have thirty daughters in my house, all beautiful princesses.
Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: thirty daughters, house
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 daughters | nummod |
| 4 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughters | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 princesses | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 princesses | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princesses | amod |
| 11 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 daughters | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | thirty daughters and all beautiful princesses | my house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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