The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 56
They hastened with every sign of joy to the Princess, kissing her hand and congratulating her on being once more restored to her natural shape.
Who acts: astonishment · What happens: hasten, kiss, congratulate, be, sign · To what, where: hand, princess, joy
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishment), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sign | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hastened | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sign | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 joy | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kissing | punct |
| 12 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hastened | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kissing | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 congratulating | cc |
| 16 | congratulating | congratulate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kissing | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 congratulating | obj |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 restored | mark |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 restored | cop |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 restored | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 restored | advmod |
| 22 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 congratulating | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 shape | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shape | nmod:poss |
| 25 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shape | amod |
| 26 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | astonishment | with every sign of joy to the Princess | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with sign=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kiss | gerund | astonishment not said here | princess's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | congratulate | gerund | astonishment not said here | princess | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | astonishment not said here | to princess's natural shape; once, restore property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sign | joy to the Princess | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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