The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 140
The Princess Lina was very angry, and when the Star Gazer presented her bouquet, she received it in a disdainful manner.
Who acts: Princess Lina, Star Gazer, bouquet · What happens: be, present, receive · To what, where: bouquet, water, disdainful manner
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Lina, Star Gazer, bouquet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lina | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lina | compound |
| 3 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 received | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 received | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 presented | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Gazer | det |
| 11 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gazer | compound |
| 12 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | nsubj |
| 13 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 received | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bouquet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bouquet | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 presented | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 received | nsubj |
| 18 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 received | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 manner | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 manner | det |
| 22 | disdainful | disdainful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 manner | amod |
| 23 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 received | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princess Lina | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | present | past | the Star Gazer | Lina's bouquet | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bouquet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | bouquet | water | a disdainful manner | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in manner=Location |
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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