The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 91
This happened several nights running, and the Princess could not understand it at all.
Who acts: This, several nights, Princess · What happens: happen, run, not understand · To what, where: courage, all
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 (This, several nights, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nights | amod |
| 4 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obj |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 nights | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 understand | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 understand | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 understand | advmod |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 understand | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 understand | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | This | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | several nights not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not understand | could | the Princess | courage | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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