The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 113
His thoughts were full of the Princess Helena, who was as lovely as a dream.
Who acts: thoughts, Princess Helena, heart · What happens: be, think
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, Princess Helena, heart), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Helena | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Helena | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Helena | compound |
| 8 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lovely | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lovely | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lovely | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 lovely | advmod |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Helena | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 dream | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dream | det |
| 16 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lovely | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | heart's thoughts | of the Princess Helena; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Princess Helena | as a dream; lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think | heart | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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