The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 132
Prince Darling went up to a young girl who was trying to eat a few blades of grass, she was so hungry.
Who acts: Prince Darling, young girl, girl · What happens: go up, try, eat, be · To what, where: few blades
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Darling, young girl, girl), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Darling | compound |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 trying | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 trying | aux |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 girl | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trying | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 blades | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blades | amod |
| 16 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 grass | case |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blades | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hungry | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hungry | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hungry | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 hungry | advmod |
| 23 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Prince Darling | to a young girl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | try | past · progressive | a young girl | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | a young girl not said here | a few blades of grass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | girl | hungry property | tree rules |
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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