The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 47
Then some of the other girls came and took her to the princess who asked: “What is the matter, pretty one?”
Who acts: some, princess · What happens: come, take, ask, be, pretty · To what, where: face, princess, matter, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 girls | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girls | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girls | amod |
| 6 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 some | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 princess | acl:relcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 matter | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 matter | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 matter | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 matter | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pretty | punct |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 matter | parataxis |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pretty | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 pretty | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | some not said here | face | the princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to princess=Destination | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pretty in a quote | infinitive | one | tree rules |
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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