The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 87
The princess was walking with her attendants in the rose garden when the dove turned itself into a gold ring and fell at her feet.
Who acts: princess, dove · What happens: walk, turn, fall · To what, where: rose garden, dove, gold ring, feet
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, dove), 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 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | aux |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 attendants | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walking | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 10 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 garden | compound |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 turned | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dove | det |
| 14 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | advcl |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 turned | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 ring | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ring | compound |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the princess | the rose garden | with princess's attendants | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn | past | the dove | dove | a gold ring | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent itself=Theme into ring=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fall | past | the dove not said here | princess's feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
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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