The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 84
Then the girl went to the king’s room looking seven times lovelier than ever.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go, look · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 room | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lovelier | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 looking | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 ever | case |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 lovelier | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the girl | the king's room | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | the girl not said here | lovely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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