The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 14
I was so slow, and did my errands so badly, that before she left she called the King and Queen and said to them:
Who acts: I, unicorn · What happens: be, do, leave, call, say · To what, where: errands, that, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, unicorn), 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 | 4 slow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 slow | advmod |
| 4 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 errands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | errands | errand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 badly | advmod |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 did | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 left | obj |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 left | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 left | nsubj |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | parataxis |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Queen | cc |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | I not said here | my errands | badly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | leave | past | unicorn | that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | past | unicorn | the King and Queen | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | unicorn not said here | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
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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