The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 51
The princess wished to see for herself; she rose and paced to the spot with the march of a prancing peacock.
Who acts: princess · What happens: wish, see, rise, pace · To what, where: spot
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 herself | case |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 see | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 paced | cc |
| 12 | paced | pace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rose | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paced | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 march | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 march | det |
| 18 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spot | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 peacock | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 peacock | det |
| 21 | prancing | prancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 peacock | compound |
| 22 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 march | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the princess | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | for princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pace | participle | princess not said here | the spot with the march of a prancing peacock | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination |
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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