The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 6
She was still on her knees when Prince Sigurd entered the room.
Who acts: Lineik, Prince · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: knees, room
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lineik, Prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knees | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knees | cop |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 knees | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 knees | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knees | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 entered | advmod |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Prince | flat |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knees | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lineik | Lineik's knees | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enter | past | Prince | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
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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