The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 45
Rosette was busy at her embroidery, but when she saw her brothers she got up, and taking the King’s hand cried:
Who acts: Rosette, hand · What happens: be, see, get up, take, cry, embroider · To what, where: brothers
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, hand), 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 | 3 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 busy | cop |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 embroidery | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 embroidery | nmod:poss |
| 6 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 busy | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 busy | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 got | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 taking | cc |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 busy | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 taking | advcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rosette | at Rosette's embroidery; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Rosette | Rosette's brothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get up | past | Rosette | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | the King's hand | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | embroider | Rosette | nom embroidery «communication transitive»: poss=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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