The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 82
The princess wandered about the field day by day, no other plants or fruits in all her wonderful garden pleased her as much as these roots; but still her eyes were full of discontent.
Who acts: princess, eyes · What happens: wander, be · To what, where: other plants, wonderful garden
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, eyes), 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 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | compound |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plants | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 plants | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plants | amod |
| 13 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wandered | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 fruits | cc |
| 15 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plants | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 garden | det:predet |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 garden | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 garden | amod |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 her | amod |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wandered | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wandered | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 roots | case |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 roots | det |
| 27 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 much | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 full | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 full | cc |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 34 full | advmod |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 full | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 full | cop |
| 34 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wandered | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 discontent | case |
| 36 | discontent | discontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 full | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | the princess | no other plants or fruits | princess's wonderful garden | day | goblin obl | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Trajectory | |
| 2 | is | past | princess's eyes | still | of discontent; full property | 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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