The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 167
Then the poor little Princess, shaking with terror, went down on her knees, crying:
Who acts: poor little Princess · What happens: shake, go down, cry · To what, where: knees
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Princess | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Princess | amod |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shaking | punct |
| 7 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Princess | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shaking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 knees | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knees | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | gerund | the poor little Princess not said here | with terror | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with terror=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | the poor little Princess | Princess's knees | then | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | the poor little Princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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