The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 53
The princess was very unhappy when Kisa left her without even bidding her farewell.
Who acts: princess, Kisa · What happens: be, leave, bid · To what, where: princess, farewell
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, Kisa), 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 unhappy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 left | advmod |
| 7 | Kisa | Kisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 left | obj |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 bidding | mark |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 bidding | advmod |
| 12 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 left | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 farewell | nmod:poss |
| 14 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bidding | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Kisa | princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | Kisa not said here | Kisa's farewell | 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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