The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 54
When she found that the King did not return, she hastened out to look for him, and reached the shore, with a hundred of the ladies of her train, loaded with splendid presents for him.
Who acts: Princess, King · What happens: find, not return, hasten out, look, reach, load · To what, where: shore, ladies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hastened | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 return | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 return | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 return | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 return | advmod |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 found | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hastened | nsubj |
| 12 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 hastened | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hastened | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reached | cc |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hastened | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hundred | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 hundred | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hundred | det |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 reached | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ladies | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ladies | det |
| 29 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hundred | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 train | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 train | nmod:poss |
| 32 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ladies | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 loaded | punct |
| 34 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 ladies | acl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 presents | case |
| 36 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 presents | amod |
| 37 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 loaded | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 presents | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not return | past · do-support | the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hasten out | past | Princess | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | for King | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | Princess not said here | the shore | with a hundred of the ladies of Princess's train | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | |||
| 6 | load | participle | the ladies of Princess's train not said here | with splendid presents for King | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with present=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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