The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 12
But when the Princess heard of her father’s decision, she was not at all pleased, and said to him, ‘Before I do your bidding, I must have three dresses; one as golden as the sun, one as silver as the moon, and one as shining as the stars.
Who acts: Princess, I, one, father, your · What happens: hear, not be, say, do, have, shine · To what, where: all, father, bidding, three dresses · 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 (Princess, I, one, father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 decision | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decision | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 father | case |
| 10 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleased | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleased | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 pleased | obl |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 25 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | advcl |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | aux |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | conj |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 dresses | nummod |
| 35 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 golden | punct |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 golden | nsubj |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 golden | advmod |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | parataxis |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 sun | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sun | det |
| 42 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 golden | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 silver | punct |
| 44 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 silver | nsubj |
| 45 | as | as | ADV | _ | 46 silver | advmod |
| 46 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 golden | conj |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 moon | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 moon | det |
| 49 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 silver | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 shining | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 shining | cc |
| 52 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 54 shining | nsubj |
| 53 | as | as | ADV | _ | 54 shining | advmod |
| 54 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 said | advcl |
| 55 | as | as | ADP | _ | 57 stars | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 stars | det |
| 57 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 shining | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Princess | of Princess's father's decision | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of decision=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Princess | all | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | do | present | I | your bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | have | must | I | three dresses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient | ||||
| 6 | shine | gerund | one | as the stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | decide | Princess's father | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | bid | your | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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