The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 40
The beautiful princess happened to be picking roses in the garden, when her father’s coach drove up.
Who acts: beautiful princess, coach · What happens: happen, pick, drive up · To what, where: roses, garden
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful princess, coach), 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 | 3 princess | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 picking | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 picking | aux |
| 7 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 8 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 picking | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 drove | advmod |
| 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 | 17 coach | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 father | case |
| 17 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | nsubj |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 drove | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the beautiful princess | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick | to-infinitive · progressive | the beautiful princess not said here | roses | the garden | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient | |||
| 3 | drive up | past | princess's father's coach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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