The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 24
The princess meanwhile was craftily pursuing her plan of escape.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, pursue, plan · To what, where: plan, escape
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 craftily | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 craftily | cop |
| 5 | craftily | craftily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 princess | amod |
| 6 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 craftily | advcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 plan | nmod:poss |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pursuing | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 escape | case |
| 10 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plan | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | craftily, meanwhile property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pursue | gerund | princess's plan of escape | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme | |||||
| 3 | plan | princess | escape | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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