The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 48
Next morning the Princess announced that she had guessed the riddle, and sent for the twelve judges, before whom she declared it.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: announce, guess, send, declare · To what, where: riddle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 announced | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 announced | nsubj |
| 5 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 guessed | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 guessed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 guessed | aux |
| 9 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 announced | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 riddle | det |
| 11 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guessed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 announced | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 judges | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 judges | det |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 judges | nummod |
| 18 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sent | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 declared | punct |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 declared | mark |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 declared | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 declared | nsubj |
| 23 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 declared | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the Princess | morning | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | guess | past · perfect | Princess | the riddle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | for the twelve judges | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | Princess | riddle | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Theme it=Attribute |
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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