The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 101
She started back at the sight of the prince, whom this time she also recognised.
Who acts: woman · What happens: start back, recognise, sight · To what, where: sight, time, prince
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 started | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sight | det |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 started | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whom | punct |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 prince | nmod |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whom | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 recognised | nsubj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 recognised | advmod |
| 16 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start back | past | woman | the sight of the prince the sight of the prince the sight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | recognise | past | woman | this time not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sight | the prince the sight of the prince the sight of the prince | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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