The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 10
The Princess was so thirsty that she got down, bent over the stream, and drank, for she wasn’t allowed to drink out of the golden goblet.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, get down, bend, drink, not allow, drink out · To what, where: stream, Princess, golden goblet
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thirsty | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thirsty | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 thirsty | advmod |
| 5 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thirsty | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bent | punct |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 got | xcomp |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 stream | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stream | det |
| 14 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drank | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drank | cc |
| 17 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thirsty | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 allowed | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 allowed | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 allowed | aux:pass |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 allowed | advmod |
| 23 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 drank | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 drink | mark |
| 25 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 allowed | xcomp |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 goblet | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 goblet | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 goblet | det |
| 29 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 goblet | amod |
| 30 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drink | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thirsty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princess | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get down | past | Princess | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bend | participle | Princess not said here | the stream | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over stream=Location | ||||
| 4 | drink | past | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not allow | past · passive | Princess | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | drink out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the golden goblet | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient |
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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