More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 10
And as the King rose to greet her as his daughter, the trumpets sounded loudly in honour of the new Princess, and the people outside in the street said to each other:
Who acts: King, trumpets, people · What happens: rise, greet, sound, say, honour · To what, where: flock, honour, each, new Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, trumpets, people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rose | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rose | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 greet | mark |
| 7 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rose | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 greet | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greet | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sounded | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trumpets | det |
| 14 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sounded | nsubj |
| 15 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 16 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 15 sounded | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 honour | case |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sounded | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Princess | amod |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 honour | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 people | det |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 said | nsubj |
| 27 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 26 people | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 street | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 street | det |
| 30 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 people | nmod |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 each | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 31 said | obl |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 each | fixed |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | the King not said here | flock | as King's daughter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme as daughter=Attribute | |||
| 3 | sound | past | the trumpets | honour of the new Princess | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honour=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the people in the street | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | honour | the new Princess | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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