The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 142
The Princess with the long nose began to wash as well as she could, but, the more she washed and rubbed, the larger the spots grew.
Who acts: Princess, spots · What happens: begin, wash, rub, grow
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 (Princess, spots), 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 | 7 began | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 nose | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nose | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nose | amod |
| 6 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Princess | nmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wash | mark |
| 9 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 9 wash | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 could | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wash | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 washed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 washed | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 but | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 more | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 washed | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 washed | nsubj |
| 21 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rubbed | cc |
| 23 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 washed | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 larger | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 larger | det |
| 26 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 washed | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 spots | det |
| 28 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 grew | nsubj |
| 29 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 larger | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Princess with the long nose | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | the Princess with the long nose not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wash | past | princess | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rub | past | princess not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | the spots | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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