The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 71
Just as the prince passed out of sight the fluttering ribbons dance before her eyes, and she descried her beautiful princess bound to a tree.
Who acts: prince, fluttering ribbons, Eglantine · What happens: pass out, dance, descry, bind · To what, where: sight, beautiful princess
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 (prince, fluttering ribbons, Eglantine), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ribbons | det |
| 10 | fluttering | fluttering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ribbons | compound |
| 11 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dance | nsubj |
| 12 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sight | acl:relcl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dance | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 descried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 descried | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 descried | nsubj |
| 19 | descried | descry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 princess | nmod:poss |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 princess | amod |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 descried | obj |
| 23 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 princess | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bound | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass out | past | the prince | sight | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | present | the fluttering ribbons | sight not said here | before Eglantine's eyes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sight=Theme | |||
| 3 | descry | past | Eglantine | Eglantine's beautiful princess | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bind | participle | Eglantine's beautiful princess not said here | to a tree | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to tree=Co-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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