The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 2
Oh, wasn’t the second princess glad to see him!
What happens: not be, see · To what, where: second princess, him
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 princess | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 princess | cop |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 princess | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 princess | amod |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 princess | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 glad | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the second princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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