The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 82
This was what the princess had been waiting for, and catching up her husband’s sword, she severed the snake’s head from its body.
Who acts: This, princess · What happens: be, wait, catch up, sever · To what, where: sword, head, body
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 waiting | aux |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 waiting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 catching | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 catching | cc |
| 12 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 waiting | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 catching | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sword | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 husband | case |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catching | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 severed | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 severed | nsubj |
| 20 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 snake | det |
| 22 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 snake | case |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 severed | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 body | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 body | nmod:poss |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 severed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | past · perfect · progressive | the princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch up | gerund | the princess not said here | princess's husband's sword | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sever | past | princess | the snake's head | head's body | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme from body=Initial_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 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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