The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 6
So the Princess would sit looking up at the sky, and watching the clouds float across, and wondering whether she should ever get out of her prison.
Who acts: Princess, clouds · What happens: sit, look up, watch, float, wonder, get out · To what, where: prison
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, clouds), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sit | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | aux |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sit | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 looking | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 watching | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watching | cc |
| 13 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 looking | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clouds | det |
| 15 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 float | nsubj |
| 16 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 watching | parataxis |
| 17 | across | across | ADV | _ | 16 float | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wondering | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wondering | cc |
| 20 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 looking | conj |
| 21 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 get | advmod |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wondering | advcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 prison | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 prison | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 prison | nmod:poss |
| 29 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | would | the Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look up | gerund | the Princess not said here | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | float | present | the clouds | across property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | get out | should | Princess | Princess's prison | ever | 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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