The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 39
Then the basket was let down again, and up went the second princess, and then up went the youngest; but first she put her arms round her prince’s neck, and kissed him, and cried a little.
Who acts: princess · What happens: let down, go, put, kiss, cry · To what, where: basket, second princess, youngest, arms, prince, little
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 basket | det |
| 3 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux:pass |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 let | compound:prt |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 let | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 princess | amod |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youngest | det |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 put | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | parataxis |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 arms | nmod:poss |
| 28 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | round | round | ADP | _ | 33 neck | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 prince | nmod:poss |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 neck | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 prince | case |
| 33 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 kissed | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 kissed | cc |
| 36 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 kissed | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 cried | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 cried | cc |
| 40 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 little | det |
| 42 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | past · passive | the basket | then; again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the second princess | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the youngest | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | princess | princess's arms | round princess's prince's neck; first property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | |||
| 5 | kiss | past | princess not said here | prince | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | princess not said here | a little | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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