The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 50
She took care not to be noticed as she reached the ship, and directly she got on board she once more changed to her former lovely appearance and told the prince that her luggage was now all on board, and that they need wait for nothing more.
Who acts: Signy, luggage, prince · What happens: take, not notice, reach, get on, change, tell · To what, where: care, ship, board, prince, more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Signy, luggage, prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 noticed | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 noticed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 noticed | aux:pass |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | advcl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 noticed | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 15 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 19 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 changed | nsubj |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 changed | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 changed | advmod |
| 23 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 appearance | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 appearance | amod |
| 27 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 appearance | amod |
| 28 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 changed | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 told | cc |
| 30 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 prince | det |
| 32 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 told | iobj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 board | mark |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 luggage | nmod:poss |
| 35 | luggage | luggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 board | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 board | cop |
| 37 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 board | advmod |
| 38 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 board | advmod |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 board | case |
| 40 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 told | ccomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 wait | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 wait | cc |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 need | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 need | nsubj |
| 45 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 wait | advcl |
| 46 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 nothing | case |
| 48 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 46 wait | obl |
| 49 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 wait | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Signy | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not notice | to-infinitive · passive | Signy not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | Signy | the ship | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get on | past | Signy | board | directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | change | past | Signy | to Signy's former lovely appearance result; once property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to appearance=Result | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | Signy not said here | the prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Signy's luggage | board | now | all property | tree rules | ||
| 8 | need | present | prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 9 | wait | infinitive | more | for nothing | 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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