The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 55
At this dreadful sight the princess, who was broad awake, began to scream loudly.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, begin, scream · To what, where: dreadful sight
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sight | det |
| 3 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 awake | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 awake | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 awake | cop |
| 10 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 awake | amod |
| 11 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sight | punct |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 scream | mark |
| 15 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 15 scream | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | this dreadful sight and the princess | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | to-infinitive | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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