The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 43
The poor Princess was terrified, she grew very pale and began to cry softly.
Who acts: poor Princess, girl · What happens: be, grow, begin, cry
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Princess, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 terrified | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | cop |
| 5 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | conj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 pale | advmod |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cry | mark |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 14 cry | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor Princess | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | girl | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | girl not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | girl not said here | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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