The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 22
The Prince then told her the task they had been set to do.
Who acts: Prince, task · What happens: tell, set, do · To what, where: task, toad, tasks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, task), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 task | det |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 set | aux:pass |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 task | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Prince | the task | toad | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient task=Topic | ||
| 2 | set | past · perfect · passive | the task not said here | tasks = task | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the task not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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