The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 88
When the wedding was all but over the Princess got up quickly, hoping to slip away unnoticed among the crowd, but, to her great dismay, she found every door fastened.
Who acts: Princess, great dismay · What happens: get up, hope, slip away, find, be, dismay · To what, where: door, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, great dismay), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fastened | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 fastened | advmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 fastened | cc |
| 7 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 10 got | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fastened | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 got | compound:prt |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoping | punct |
| 14 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 got | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 slip | mark |
| 16 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hoping | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 slip | advmod |
| 18 | unnoticed | unnoticed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 slip | xcomp |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 crowd | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crowd | det |
| 21 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unnoticed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fastened | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 fastened | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dismay | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 dismay | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dismay | nmod:poss |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dismay | amod |
| 28 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fastened | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 found | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 found | nsubj |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dismay | acl:relcl |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 door | det |
| 33 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 found | obj |
| 34 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the Princess | quickly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | slip away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | away, unnoticed property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Princess | every door | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Princess's great dismay | the wedding not said here | all, fasten property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | dismay | Princess | nom dismay «feeling transitive»: poss=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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