The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 220
Rosette and Frisk were joyful enough to find themselves once more on dry land, and the Princess thanked the old man heartily; then, wrapping herself up in her blankets, she daintily picked her way up to the cottage on her little bare feet.
Who acts: Rosette, Princess · What happens: be, find, thank, wrap up, pick up · To what, where: Princess, old man, Rosette, blankets, way, little bare feet
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 (Rosette, Princess), 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 | Rosette | rosette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joyful | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Frisk | cc |
| 3 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rosette | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joyful | cop |
| 5 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 joyful | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 joyful | advcl |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 find | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 land | amod |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 more | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thanked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thanked | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 thanked | nsubj |
| 19 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joyful | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thanked | obj |
| 23 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 19 thanked | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 wrapping | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 wrapping | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wrapping | punct |
| 27 | wrapping | wrap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 joyful | conj |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 wrapping | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 wrapping | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 blankets | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 blankets | nmod:poss |
| 32 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wrapping | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 picked | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 picked | nsubj |
| 35 | daintily | daintily | ADV | _ | 36 picked | advmod |
| 36 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joyful | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 way | nmod:poss |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 picked | obj |
| 39 | up | up | ADV | _ | 36 picked | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 cottage | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 cottage | det |
| 42 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 picked | obl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 feet | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 feet | nmod:poss |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 feet | amod |
| 46 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 feet | amod |
| 47 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 picked | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joyful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rosette and Frisk | enough, joyful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Rosette and Frisk not said here | Princess | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | the Princess | the old man | heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 4 | wrap up | gerund | Rosette and Frisk not said here | Rosette | Rosette's blankets | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in blanket=Destination | ||
| 5 | pick up | past | Rosette | Rosette's way | Rosette's little bare feet | to the cottage; daintily property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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