The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 159

As the procession was so long it advanced but slowly, and the nurse’s daughter sat up in her carriage trying to look like a Queen.

Who acts: procession, daughter · What happens: be, sit up, try, look · To what, where: carriage

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, daughter), 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	_	3 procession	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 procession	det
3	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 advanced	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 advanced	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 advanced	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 advanced	nsubj
8	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 slowly	cc
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 advanced	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nurse	det
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 nurse	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 advanced	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 carriage	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 carriage	nmod:poss
21	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
22	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sat	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 trying	xcomp
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 Queen	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Queen	det
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 advanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	procession		as the procession; advanced, long property	tree rules
2	sit up	past	the nurse's daughter	daughter's carriage		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in carriage=Location
3	try	gerund	the nurse's daughter not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	the nurse's daughter not said here		like a Queen	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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