The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 1
‘King Charming, here is the Princess Turritella to whom you have plighted your faith.
Who acts: Charming, you · What happens: be, plight · To what, where: faith
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Charming, you), 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 | _ | 3 Charming | punct |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 here | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Charming | punct |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 here | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Turritella | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Turritella | compound |
| 9 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 here | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 here | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 plighted | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 plighted | aux |
| 14 | plighted | plight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 faith | nmod:poss |
| 16 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plighted | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Charming King | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plight | present · perfect | you | your faith | 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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