The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 215
He soon saw the Princess and Frisk floating up and down, and Rosette, stretching out her hands to him, cried:
Who acts: dog, Frisk, Rosette · What happens: see, float, stretch out, cry · To what, where: Princess, hands, dog
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 (dog, Frisk, Rosette), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | 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 | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Frisk | cc |
| 7 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Princess | conj |
| 8 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Frisk | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 floating | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 down | cc |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 up | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretching | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stretching | cc |
| 14 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stretching | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretching | punct |
| 16 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 stretching | compound:prt |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stretching | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stretching | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cried | punct |
| 23 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | dog | the Princess and Frisk | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | Frisk not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | gerund | Rosette | Rosette's hands | dog | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to he=Result | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | dog not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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