The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 89
The princess was already seated at the table, but was as dumb as Count Piro himself.
What happens: seat, be · To what, where: princess, table
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 seated | advmod |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dumb | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 dumb | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dumb | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 dumb | advmod |
| 13 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seated | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Piro | case |
| 15 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Piro | compound |
| 16 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dumb | obl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 Piro | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the princess | the table | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | is | past | as Count Piro Piro; dumb property | tree rules |
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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