The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 137
Sometimes, however, the princess would pretend to go to sleep, and then, after all her women had gladly followed her example, she would get up and go out by herself, her veil hanging loosely about her.
Who acts: princess, veil · What happens: pretend, go, follow, get up, go out, hang · To what, where: sleep, women, veil
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, veil), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 pretend | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sometimes | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 pretend | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pretend | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pretend | aux |
| 8 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretend | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sleep | case |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 followed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 followed | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 followed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 followed | punct |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 followed | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 women | det:predet |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 women | nmod:poss |
| 20 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 followed | aux |
| 22 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 23 followed | advmod |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pretend | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 example | nmod:poss |
| 25 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 get | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | aux |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretend | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 get | compound:prt |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 go | cc |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 get | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 herself | case |
| 35 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 go | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 veil | punct |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 veil | nmod:poss |
| 38 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obl |
| 39 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 veil | acl |
| 40 | loosely | loosely | ADV | _ | 39 hanging | advmod |
| 41 | about | about | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 hanging | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | would | the princess | however, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | past · perfect · passive | princess's women | then | gladly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme example=Attribute | |||
| 4 | get up | would | princess | princess's veil | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | go out | infinitive | princess not said here | by princess; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | hang | gerund | princess's veil not said here | about princess; loosely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about she=Location | ||||
| 7 | exemplify | princess | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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