The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 13
But the Princess was meek, and said nothing about her maid’s rude behavior, and quietly mounted her horse again.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, say, mount · To what, where: nothing, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 meek | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 meek | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 meek | cop |
| 5 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 meek | parataxis |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 behavior | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 maid | nmod:poss |
| 12 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 maid | case |
| 14 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 behavior | amod |
| 15 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mounted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mounted | cc |
| 18 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 19 mounted | advmod |
| 19 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 mounted | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princess | meek property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | nothing | about Princess's maid's rude behavior | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | Princess's horse | again | quietly property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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