The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 72
And he went away and washed himself, and dressed himself in fine clothes and entered the hall again, looking so handsome that the proud princess fell in love with him on the spot.
Who acts: Paperarello, proud princess · What happens: go away, wash, dress, enter, look, fall · To what, where: Paperarello, fine clothes, hall, love
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Paperarello, proud 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 washed | cc |
| 6 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 washed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dressed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dressed | cc |
| 10 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 dressed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 clothes | case |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clothes | amod |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 dressed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 entered | cc |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dressed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hall | det |
| 18 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 entered | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 entered | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 handsome | advmod |
| 23 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looking | xcomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 fell | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 princess | det |
| 26 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 princess | amod |
| 27 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 handsome | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 love | case |
| 30 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fell | obl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 spot | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 spot | det |
| 35 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | Paperarello | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wash | past | Paperarello not said here | Paperarello | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dress | past | Paperarello | fine clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | the hall | again | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | handsome property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | the proud princess | love | with Paperarello; on the spot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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