The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 14
They entreated her to come in, but, seeing that she would not, left her, and the Prince, coming up, courteously greeted the maiden, and told her he had lost his way in the forest and was both hungry and weary.
Who acts: maidens, Prince · What happens: entreat, come in, see, leave, come up, greet · To what, where: youngest, way, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, Prince), 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 entreated | nsubj |
| 2 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entreated | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 entreated | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 but | punct |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 left | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 would | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 would | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 seeing | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 would | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeing | punct |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entreated | parataxis |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 left | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 coming | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 coming | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 coming | punct |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 left | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 coming | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 greeted | punct |
| 26 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 27 greeted | advmod |
| 27 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entreated | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 maiden | det |
| 29 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 greeted | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 told | cc |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entreated | parataxis |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | iobj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lost | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 lost | aux |
| 36 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 told | ccomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 way | nmod:poss |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lost | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 forest | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 forest | det |
| 41 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lost | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 hungry | cc |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 hungry | cop |
| 44 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 45 hungry | cc:preconj |
| 45 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lost | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 weary | cc |
| 47 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 hungry | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | maidens = maiden | youngest = young | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in | to-infinitive | maidens = maiden not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | would | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | leave | past | youngest = young | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come up | gerund | the Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | greet speech: greet | past | maidens = maiden not said here | courteously, maiden property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | past | youngest = young | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | lose | past · perfect | prince | prince's way | the forest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 9 | is | past | prince not said here | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | be | prince not said here | tree rules |
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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