The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 108
When the Princess saw her ring brought back to her unhurt she was so astonished that she thought she must be dreaming.
Who acts: Princess, ring · What happens: see, bring back, be, think, dream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, ring), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ring | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 unhurt | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 unhurt | nmod:poss |
| 11 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brought | xcomp |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 astonished | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 astonished | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 astonished | advmod |
| 15 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 unhurt | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 thought | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 astonished | advcl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dreaming | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 dreaming | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 dreaming | aux |
| 22 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | bring back | past | princess's ring | unhurt property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | princess | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | princess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dream | must · progressive | princess | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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