English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 46
The stepmother was that surprised when she found the young prince instead of the nasty frog, and she wasn't best pleased, you may be sure, when the prince told her that he was going to marry her stepdaughter because she had unspelled him.
Who acts: stepmother, you, prince · What happens: be, find, not be, tell, go, marry · To what, where: young prince, stepmother, stepdaughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, you, prince), 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 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 surprised | mark |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 found | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prince | amod |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 16 frog | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 frog | det |
| 15 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 frog | amod |
| 16 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleased | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pleased | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pleased | cop |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 pleased | advmod |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 pleased | amod |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 surprised | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sure | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 sure | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 sure | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sure | cop |
| 28 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 surprised | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 told | punct |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 told | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 prince | det |
| 32 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 told | nsubj |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sure | parataxis |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 going | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 going | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 going | aux |
| 38 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 told | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 marry | mark |
| 40 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 going | xcomp |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 42 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 marry | obj |
| 43 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 46 unspelled | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 unspelled | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 unspelled | aux |
| 46 | unspelled | unspell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 told | ccomp |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 unspelled | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stepmother | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | stepmother | the young prince | instead the nasty frog | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||
| 3 | not is | past | stepmother | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince | stepmother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | prince | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | marry | to-infinitive | prince not said here | stepmother's stepdaughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Patient | ||||
| 8 | unspell | past · perfect · passive | stepmother | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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