The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 41
The princess was delighted with her new home, and with her husband also; and several days slipped happily by, spent in turning over all the beautiful things that the palace contained.
Who acts: princess, several days · What happens: be, slip, spend, contain · To what, where: turning, beautiful things
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, several days), 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 | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 home | amod |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 husband | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | conj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 husband | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 slipped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 slipped | cc |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 slipped | nsubj |
| 19 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | parataxis |
| 20 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 slipped | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 slipped | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spent | punct |
| 23 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 slipped | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 turning | case |
| 25 | turning | turning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spent | obl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 things | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 things | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 things | det |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 things | amod |
| 30 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spent | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 contained | nsubj |
| 34 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 things | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | with princess's new home; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | several days | happily property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | spend | participle | turning | over all beautiful things | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | contain | participle · passive | all beautiful things | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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