The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 48
The brave princess stooped for a second to pluck the lance out of the wound, and then ran on until she found herself safe at home again.
Who acts: brave princess, princess · What happens: stoop, pluck, run on, find · To what, where: brave princess, lance, wound, princess
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave princess, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 princess | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 second | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 second | det |
| 7 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stooped | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pluck | mark |
| 9 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stooped | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lance | det |
| 11 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pluck | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 wound | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wound | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wound | det |
| 15 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pluck | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 ran | advmod |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ran | compound:prt |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 found | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ran | advcl |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 found | xcomp |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 safe | obl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 safe | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | participle | the brave princess not said here | second | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pluck | to-infinitive | the lance | the wound | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lance=Theme out wound=Source | ||||
| 3 | run on | past | the brave princess | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | princess | princess | safe property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
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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