The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 207

So for two days they floated up and down the sea, wet and shivering with the cold, and so hungry that when the Princess saw some oysters she caught them, and she and Frisk both ate some, though they didn’t like them at all.

Who acts: Princess, fish · What happens: float up, shiver, see, catch, eat, not like · To what, where: oysters, Princess, some, all

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, fish), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 floated	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 floated	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 floated	nsubj
6	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 floated	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wet	cc
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wet	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wet	punct
13	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 floated	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shivering	cc
15	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 wet	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 cold	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cold	det
18	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shivering	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hungry	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 hungry	advmod
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 floated	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 saw	mark
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 saw	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hungry	advcl
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 oysters	det
29	oysters	oyster	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 saw	obj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 caught	nsubj
31	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 oysters	acl:relcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 caught	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ate	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ate	cc
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ate	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Frisk	cc
37	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 she	conj
38	both	both	ADV	_	39 ate	advmod
39	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 floated	parataxis
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 ate	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 like	punct
42	though	though	SCONJ	_	46 like	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 like	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 like	aux
45	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 like	advmod
46	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 ate	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 like	obj
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 like	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float up	past	Princess			day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shiver	gerund	Princess not said here				with the cold	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	past	the Princess	some oysters				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oyster=Stimulus
4	catch	past	fish	Princess				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	eat	past	fish	some			both property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
6	not like	past · do-support	Princess	oysters = oyster	all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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 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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