The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 32
Now it happened that the garden boy had just been sent away, and though the Star Gazer did not look very sturdy, the gardener agreed to take him, as he thought that his pretty face and golden curls would please the princesses.
Who acts: it, Star Gazer, gardener, pretty face · What happens: happen, send away, not look, agree, take, think · To what, where: garden boy, gardener, princesses · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (it, Star Gazer, gardener, pretty face), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 sent | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | compound |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | advcl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 agreed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 agreed | cc |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 look | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Gazer | det |
| 17 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Gazer | compound |
| 18 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 look | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 look | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 look | advmod |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 agreed | advcl |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 sturdy | advmod |
| 23 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 look | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 look | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gardener | det |
| 26 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 agreed | nsubj |
| 27 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 agreed | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 thought | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 agreed | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 please | mark |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 face | nmod:poss |
| 37 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 face | amod |
| 38 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 please | nsubj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 curls | cc |
| 40 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 curls | amod |
| 41 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 face | conj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 please | aux |
| 43 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 thought | ccomp |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 princesses | det |
| 45 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 please | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send away | past · perfect · passive | the garden boy | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not look | past · do-support | the Star Gazer | sturdy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | the gardener | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the gardener not said here | gardener | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | gardener | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | please | would | gardener's pretty face and golden curls | the princesses | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer |
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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