The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 51

The Princess and the Captain of the Guard were talking so earnestly that they did not think of Patypata, but she had overheard all they said, and now came and threw herself at Miranda’s feet.

Who acts: Princess, Princesses, Miranda · What happens: talk, not think, overhear, say, come, throw · To what, where: Miranda, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Princess, Princesses, Miranda), 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	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 talking	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Captain	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Captain	det
5	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Princess	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Guard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Guard	det
8	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Captain	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talking	aux
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 earnestly	advmod
12	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	10 talking	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 think	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 think	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 think	advmod
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 talking	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Patypata	case
19	Patypata	Patypata	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 think	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 overheard	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 overheard	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 overheard	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 overheard	aux
24	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 talking	conj
25	all	all	ADV	_	27 said	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 overheard	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 came	advmod
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 threw	cc
33	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 came	conj
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 threw	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 feet	case
36	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 feet	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 Miranda	case
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 threw	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	the Princess and the Captain of the Guard				earnestly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not think speech: other	past · do-support	Princesses = princess				of Patypata	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	overhear	past · perfect	Miranda					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Princesses = princess				all property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past				now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	throw	past		Miranda	Miranda's feet			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination

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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