The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 9
She bethought of what he said soon after their marriage, and she stopped the cries and complaints that were on her tongue.
Who acts: princess, prince, that, doors · What happens: bethink, say, stop, be, marry · To what, where: cries, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, prince, that, doors), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bethought | nsubj |
| 2 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 bethought | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 marriage | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stopped | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stopped | nsubj |
| 14 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bethought | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cries | det |
| 16 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stopped | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 complaints | cc |
| 18 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cries | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tongue | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tongue | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 tongue | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cries | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | after doors's marriage | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | stop | past | princess | the cries and complaints and princess's tongue | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cry=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | princess's tongue | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | doors = door | nom marriage «state 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 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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