The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 54
She could not take her eyes off him, and there she stood entranced until the King and the Prince came up and asked what was amusing her so much.
Who acts: Rosette, King · What happens: not take, entrance, come up, ask, be · To what, where: eyes, Rosette · 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 (Rosette, King), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 entranced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 entranced | cc |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 entranced | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 entranced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entranced | aux:pass |
| 14 | entranced | entrance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 take | conj |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Prince | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 King | conj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entranced | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asked | cc |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 came | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 amusing | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 amusing | cop |
| 27 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 asked | ccomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 amusing | nsubj |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 asked | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | could | Rosette | Rosette's eyes | off Frisk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | entrance | past · passive | Rosette | there | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | the King and the Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the King and the Prince not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | amusing property | tree rules |
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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