The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 18
The princess felt much afraid, as he was so big and ugly, and began to be sorry that she had not stayed within reach of help; but as there was no use in disobeying the giant, she walked meekly behind.
Who acts: princess, giant, use · What happens: feel, be, begin, not stay, disobey, walk · To what, where: use, giant
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, giant, use), 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 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 afraid | amod |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 big | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 big | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 big | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 big | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 big | advmod |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ugly | cc |
| 13 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 big | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sorry | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sorry | cop |
| 19 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 began | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 stayed | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stayed | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stayed | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 stayed | advmod |
| 24 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 sorry | advcl |
| 25 | within | within | ADP | _ | 26 reach | case |
| 26 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stayed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 help | case |
| 28 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 use | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 use | cc |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 was | mark |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 was | expl |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 use | cop |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 use | det |
| 35 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 37 disobeying | mark |
| 37 | disobeying | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 use | acl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 giant | det |
| 39 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 disobeying | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 walked | punct |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 walked | nsubj |
| 42 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 43 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 44 behind | advmod |
| 44 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 42 walked | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the princess | afraid property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | giant | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | giant not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | begin | past | the princess not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not stay | past · perfect | princess | within reach of help | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | the princess not said here | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | disobey | gerund | no use not said here | the giant | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | walk | past | princess | behind property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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