More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 25
Turning to the right, upstairs he runs, and enters into a very grand bedroom, and sees a beautiful Princess lying full stretch on a gold bedstead, fast asleep.
Who acts: boy, beautiful Princess · What happens: turn, run, enter, see, lie · To what, where: right, grand bedroom, beautiful Princess, full stretch, gold bedstead
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, beautiful 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 runs | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 right | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 right | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Turning | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 6 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 8 runs | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 runs | nsubj |
| 8 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enters | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 enters | cc |
| 11 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 runs | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 bedroom | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bedroom | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 grand | advmod |
| 15 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bedroom | amod |
| 16 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enters | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sees | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sees | cc |
| 19 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 runs | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Princess | amod |
| 22 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sees | obj |
| 23 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 Princess | acl |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stretch | amod |
| 25 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lying | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 bedstead | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bedstead | det |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bedstead | compound |
| 29 | bedstead | bedstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lying | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fast | punct |
| 31 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 asleep | advmod |
| 32 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sees | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | boy not said here | the right | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to right=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | run | present | boy | upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | present | boy not said here | a grand bedroom | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bedroom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | see | present | boy not said here | a beautiful Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | a beautiful Princess not said here | full stretch | a gold bedstead | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stretch=Theme |
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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