The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 52
Everybody was amused at Frisk’s antics, but all of a sudden he ran away into a little wood, and the Princess was following him, when, to her great delight, she saw a peacock, who was spreading his tail in the sunshine.
Who acts: all, Princess, word, peacock, Frisk · What happens: amuse, run away, follow, see, spread, antic · To what, where: Everybody, antics, little wood, Frisk, peacock, tail
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 (all, Princess, word, peacock), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 amused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 amused | aux:pass |
| 3 | amused | amuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 antics | case |
| 5 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 antics | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Frisk | case |
| 7 | antics | antic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 amused | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sudden | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sudden | det |
| 13 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 all | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 amused | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 ran | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wood | amod |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 following | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 following | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Princess | det |
| 24 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 following | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 following | aux |
| 26 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ran | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 following | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 when | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 amused | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 delight | punct |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 delight | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 delight | nmod:poss |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 delight | amod |
| 34 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 amused | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 saw | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 saw | nsubj |
| 37 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 amused | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 peacock | det |
| 39 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 saw | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 spreading | punct |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 spreading | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 spreading | aux |
| 43 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 peacock | acl |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 tail | nmod:poss |
| 45 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 spreading | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 sunshine | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 sunshine | det |
| 48 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 spreading | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past · passive | Everybody | Frisk's antics | to word's great delight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | run away | past | all | into a little wood result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result | ||||
| 3 | follow | past · progressive | the Princess | Frisk | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | word | a peacock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peacock=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | spread | past · progressive | a peacock | Frisk's tail | the sunshine | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in sunshine=Destination | |||
| 6 | antic | Frisk | nom antic «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | delight | word | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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