The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 8
As the Princess was as kind and clever as she was beautiful, you may imagine what a delightful journey the Prince found it, for everything the Princess said seemed to him quite charming.
Who acts: Princess, you, delightful journey · What happens: be, imagine, find, say, seem · To what, where: thing, charming, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, you, delightful journey), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 kind | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 kind | case |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 imagine | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clever | cc |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beautiful | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 imagine | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 imagine | aux |
| 16 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 found | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 journey | det |
| 19 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 journey | amod |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | nsubj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 journey | appos |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 imagine | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 everything | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 everything | case |
| 27 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 imagine | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 everything | acl:relcl |
| 31 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 seemed | obl |
| 34 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 charming | advmod |
| 35 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seemed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princess | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Princess not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Princess | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | imagine | may | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | find | past | a delightful journey | thing | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme it=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | seem | past | charming | prince | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/25/8/