The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 160
But the peacocks, who were sitting upon every tree waiting to salute her, and who had made up their minds to cry, ‘Long live our beautiful Queen!’ when they caught sight of the false bride could not help crying instead:
Who acts: peacocks, ladies, sight · What happens: sit, wait, salute, make up, cry, live · To what, where: tree, minds, beautiful Queen, false bride
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 (peacocks, ladies, sight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sitting | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peacocks | det |
| 3 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sitting | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 salute | mark |
| 13 | salute | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 waiting | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 salute | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sitting | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 made | compound:prt |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 minds | nmod:poss |
| 22 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 cry | mark |
| 24 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 live | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 live | punct |
| 27 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 live | advmod |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | parataxis |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Queen | amod |
| 31 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 live | obl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
| 34 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 36 caught | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 caught | nsubj |
| 36 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | advcl |
| 37 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 help | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 bride | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bride | det |
| 40 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bride | amod |
| 41 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sight | nmod |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 help | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 help | advmod |
| 44 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 caught | ccomp |
| 45 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 help | xcomp |
| 46 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 45 crying | advmod |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the peacocks | every tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the peacocks not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | salute | to-infinitive | the peacocks not said here | tree | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make up | past · perfect | ladies's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | live | present | our beautiful Queen | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | catch | past | ladies = lady | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | not help | could | sight of the false bride | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | cry speech: express not said to happen | gerund | sight of the false bride not said here | instead property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | mind | ladies = lady | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | sight | the false bride | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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