The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 208
When night came the Princess was so frightened that she said to Frisk:
Who acts: night, Princess, fish · What happens: come, be, say · To what, where: Frisk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (night, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 frightened | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 frightened | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 frightened | advmod |
| 8 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 frightened | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Frisk | case |
| 13 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Princess | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fish | Frisk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to frisk=Recipient |
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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