The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 203
The Princess cried and cried, until even the fishes were sorry for her.
Who acts: Princess, fishes · What happens: cry, be
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 (Princess, fishes), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sorry | punct |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 sorry | mark |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 fishes | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fishes | det |
| 10 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sorry | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sorry | cop |
| 12 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sorry | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the fishes | for two; sorry property | 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 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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