The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 122
When the Princesses saw that the clothes were those which had been theirs in the other world, they guessed that Prince Ivan was in this world, so they exchanged glances with each other, but they held their peace.
Who acts: Princesses, clothes, Prince Ivan · What happens: see, be, guess, exchange, hold, pacify · To what, where: those, clothes, world, glances, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princesses, clothes, Prince Ivan), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princesses | det |
| 3 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guessed | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 been | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clothes | det |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 been | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 those | cop |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 clothes | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 those | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 been | aux |
| 12 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 been | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 world | amod |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 been | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 guessed | nsubj |
| 20 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 world | mark |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ivan | compound |
| 23 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 world | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 world | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guessed | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 exchanged | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 exchanged | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 exchanged | nsubj |
| 31 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guessed | conj |
| 32 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 exchanged | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 each | case |
| 34 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 31 exchanged | obl |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 each | fixed |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 held | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 held | cc |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 held | nsubj |
| 39 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guessed | conj |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 peace | nmod:poss |
| 41 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 held | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Princesses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | those | the clothes nmod | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past · perfect · passive | the clothes | in the other world | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in world=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | clothes | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Prince Ivan | this world | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | exchange | past | clothes | glances | with each | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent glance=Theme with each=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | hold | past | clothes | clothes's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 8 | pacify | clothes | nom peace «state 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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