The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 83
Now the princess was sitting on a little throne beside the king, her father, and she looked as sweet and lovely as a little golden dove.
Who acts: princess, wife · What happens: sit, look · To what, where: little throne
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, wife), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 throne | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 throne | amod |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 father | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | parataxis |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 sweet | case |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 looked | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lovely | cc |
| 23 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sweet | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 dove | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dove | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dove | amod |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dove | amod |
| 28 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lovely | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the princess | a little throne | now | beside the king and wife's father | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | ||
| 2 | look | past | wife | as sweet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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