The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 92
This the King touched with his foot, and immediately it fell down, and he invited the Princess to enter without fear.
Who acts: King, chariot, Princess · What happens: touch, fall down, invite, enter · To what, where: Princess
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 (King, chariot, Princess), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 King | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 foot | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 invited | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 invited | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 invited | nsubj |
| 17 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princess | det |
| 19 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 invited | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 enter | mark |
| 21 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 invited | xcomp |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 fear | case |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 enter | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the King | with king's foot | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | chariot | down, immediately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | invite | past | king | the Princess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | without fear | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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