The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 155
Having thanked the old woman with tears in her eyes for her hospitality, and for the good news she had given her, the Princess set out on her journey and rested neither night nor day, so great was her longing to see her husband again.
Who acts: mother, Princess · What happens: thank, give, set out, rest, be, see · To what, where: old woman, woman, journey, great longing, husband
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thanked | aux |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tears | case |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 woman | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tears | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 hospitality | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eyes | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 given | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 news | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 news | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 news | amod |
| 19 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thanked | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Princess | det |
| 26 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 set | nsubj |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 set | compound:prt |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 journey | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 journey | nmod:poss |
| 31 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 rested | cc |
| 33 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 set | conj |
| 34 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 night | det |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 37 day | cc |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 night | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 great | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 great | advmod |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 longing | amod |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 longing | cop |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 longing | nmod:poss |
| 43 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rested | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 see | mark |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 rested | advcl |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 husband | nmod:poss |
| 47 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 see | obj |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 45 see | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | gerund · perfect | the old woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | mother | woman | for the good news | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme for news=Asset | |||
| 3 | set out | past | the Princess | mother's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rest | past | the Princess not said here | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | mother's great longing | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | mother's husband | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | journey | mother | nom journey «act 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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