The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 1
She felt more at ease when the King came up to her, and with the greatest respect begged her not to run away so soon, but at least to honor him by staying for the splendid feast which was prepared for the Princes and Princesses.
Who acts: She, King · What happens: feel, come up, beg, not run away, honor, stay · To what, where: more, ease, her, King, least, splendid feast
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, King), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 felt | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 ease | case |
| 5 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 begged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 begged | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 respect | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 respect | det |
| 17 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 respect | amod |
| 18 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 begged | obl |
| 19 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 begged | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 run | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 run | mark |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 begged | xcomp |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 run | advmod |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 soon | advmod |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 run | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 honor | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 honor | cc |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 least | case |
| 30 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 honor | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 honor | mark |
| 32 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 honor | obj |
| 34 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 35 staying | mark |
| 35 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 honor | advcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 feast | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 feast | det |
| 38 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 feast | amod |
| 39 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 staying | obl |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 prepared | aux:pass |
| 42 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 feast | acl:relcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 Princes | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Princes | det |
| 45 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 prepared | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Princesses | cc |
| 47 | Princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 Princes | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | She | more | ease | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent more=Theme at ease=Location | |||
| 2 | come up | past | the King | her = she | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | She not said here | her = she | with the greatest respect | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | not run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | She not said here | away, soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | honor | to-infinitive | She not said here | King | least | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | stay | gerund | She not said here | for the splendid feast | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | prepare | past · passive | the splendid feast | for the Princes and Princesses | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for prince=Beneficiary |
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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