The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 2
The princess of course ran after it at once, and she was stooping down to feel if it was hidden in the long grass, when she heard a voice calling her: “Ingibjorg!
Who acts: princess, voice · What happens: run, stoop down, feel, hide, hear, call · To what, where: course, long grass, voice, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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, voice), 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 | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | nmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooping | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stooping | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stooping | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stooping | aux |
| 14 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ran | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 stooping | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 feel | mark |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stooping | xcomp |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 hidden | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hidden | aux:pass |
| 21 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 feel | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 grass | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 grass | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grass | amod |
| 25 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hidden | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 heard | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 heard | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 heard | nsubj |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 voice | det |
| 31 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 heard | obj |
| 32 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 voice | acl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 calling | obj |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ingibjorg | punct |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ingibjorg | punct |
| 36 | Ingibjorg | Ingibjorg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 heard | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the princess of course | after course | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stoop down | past · progressive | princess | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hide a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | course | the long grass | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in grass=Location | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | princess | a voice | Ingibjorg obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | call | gerund | a voice not said here | princess | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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