The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 127
When day had quite come, the girl seated herself under the castle windows, to spin with her golden spinning-wheel, and the Princess with the long nose wanted to have that also.
Who acts: girl, Princess · What happens: come, seat, spin, want, have · To what, where: girl, castle windows, that
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seated | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | nsubj |
| 9 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 seated | obj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 windows | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 windows | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 windows | compound |
| 14 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spin | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 spin | mark |
| 17 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 seated | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 wheel | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wheel | nmod:poss |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wheel | amod |
| 21 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wheel | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 spinning | punct |
| 23 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spin | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wanted | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wanted | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Princess | det |
| 27 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wanted | nsubj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 nose | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 nose | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 nose | amod |
| 31 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Princess | nmod |
| 32 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spin | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 have | mark |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wanted | xcomp |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 have | obj |
| 36 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 have | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seat | past | the girl | girl | the castle windows | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | |||
| 3 | spin | to-infinitive | with girl's golden spinning wheel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | want | past | the Princess with the long nose | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Princess with the long nose not said here | that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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