The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 28
The princess Muffette was about six months old when the frog noticed that the queen had begun to grow sad again.
Who acts: princess, frog, queen · What happens: be, notice, begin, grow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, frog, queen), 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 | 8 old | nsubj |
| 3 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | appos |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 old | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 six | advmod |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 months | nummod |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 old | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 noticed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 frog | det |
| 11 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | nsubj |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 old | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 begun | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 begun | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 begun | aux |
| 17 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 noticed | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 grow | mark |
| 19 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 begun | xcomp |
| 20 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grow | xcomp |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 grow | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | month | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | notice | past | the frog | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | begin | past · perfect | the queen | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | grow | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | again | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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