The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 138
If she was discovered her old hostess scolded her severely; but the princess only laughed, and did the same thing next time.
Who acts: old hostess, princess · What happens: discover, scold, laugh, do · To what, where: princess, same thing
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 (old hostess, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 discovered | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovered | aux:pass |
| 4 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hostess | nmod:poss |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hostess | amod |
| 7 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scolded | nsubj |
| 8 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovered | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scolded | obj |
| 10 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 8 scolded | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laughed | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 laughed | advmod |
| 16 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovered | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 did | cc |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laughed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | obj |
| 23 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | scold | past | princess's old hostess | princess | severely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | laugh | past | the princess | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | the princess not said here | the same thing | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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