The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 11
One day when she had grown up, her father looked at her, and saw that she was exactly like her mother, so he said to his councillors, ‘I will marry my daughter to one of you, and she shall be queen, for she is exactly like her dead mother, and when I die her husband shall be king.’
Who acts: _, father, I, husband · What happens: grow up, look, see, be, say, marry · To what, where: councillors, daughter, one, queen, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, father, I, husband), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 grown | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grown | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | aux |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grown | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 mother | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mother | cop |
| 20 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 23 mother | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 said | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 councillors | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 30 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 said | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 marry | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 marry | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 marry | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 marry | aux |
| 35 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | conj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 marry | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 one | case |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 marry | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 you | case |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 one | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 queen | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 queen | cc |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 queen | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 queen | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 queen | cop |
| 47 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | parataxis |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 mother | punct |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 56 mother | case |
| 50 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 mother | nsubj |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 mother | cop |
| 52 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 56 mother | advmod |
| 53 | like | like | ADP | _ | 56 mother | case |
| 54 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 mother | nmod:poss |
| 55 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 mother | amod |
| 56 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 queen | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 die | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 die | cc |
| 59 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 61 die | advmod |
| 60 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 61 die | nsubj |
| 61 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | conj |
| 62 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 husband | nmod:poss |
| 63 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 king | nsubj |
| 64 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 66 king | aux |
| 65 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 66 king | cop |
| 66 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 die | ccomp |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 68 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · perfect | _ | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | _'s father | day | at _ | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | _'s father not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | _ | like _'s mother; exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | father | father's councillors | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to councillor=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | marry | future | I | my daughter | one of you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient to one=Co-Patient | |||
| 7 | is a | shall | _ | queen and _'s dead mother | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | present | _ | for _'s dead mother; exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 10 | is a | shall | _'s husband | king | 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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