English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 25
The first said: “I weird her to be so beautiful that she shall charm the most powerful prince in the world.”
Who acts: first · What happens: say, be, charm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 weird | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 weird | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 weird | nsubj |
| 7 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 weird | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 beautiful | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weird | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 charm | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 charm | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 charm | aux |
| 16 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beautiful | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 powerful | advmod |
| 19 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prince | amod |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 charm | appos |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prince | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | the first not said here | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | charm in a quote | shall | first | 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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