The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 178
The little Princess stared at him with a frightened face, and he left her without waiting for an answer.
Who acts: little Princess, gardener · What happens: stare, leave, wait · To what, where: wife
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 (little Princess, gardener), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stared | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 9 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stared | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 waiting | mark |
| 17 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 left | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 answer | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 answer | det |
| 20 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 waiting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the little Princess | at gardener; with a frightened face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | gardener | wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | gardener not said here | for a answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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