The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 5
As for the Princess, the more she saw of the King the more she liked him; he was so generous, so handsome and clever, that at last she was almost as much in love with him as he was with her.
Who acts: Princess, King · What happens: see, like, be · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, King), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Princess | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 more | det |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 more | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 liked | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 liked | nsubj |
| 16 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 liked | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 generous | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 generous | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 generous | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 generous | advmod |
| 22 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 handsome | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 handsome | advmod |
| 25 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 generous | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 clever | cc |
| 27 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 generous | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 last | punct |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 last | nsubj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 31 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | conj |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 much | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 much | cop |
| 34 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 36 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 last | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 love | case |
| 38 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 much | vocative |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 love | nmod |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 her | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 her | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 her | cop |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 her | case |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 him | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Princess | as the Princess; of the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as princess=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | like | past | Princess | King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | King | generous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | Princess | love with King vocative; almost, much property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | King | with France | 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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