The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 182
The Fairy touched each door with her wand, and it sprang open instantly, but they had to go through forty before they came to the Princess, who was sitting on the floor looking very dejected.
Who acts: Fairy, door, King, Princess · What happens: touch, spring, have, go, come, sit · To what, where: door, forty, floor
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 (Fairy, door, King, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wand | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprang | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 touched | conj |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sprang | xcomp |
| 14 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 12 sprang | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 touched | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 forty | case |
| 22 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Princess | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Princess | det |
| 28 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sitting | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 sitting | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sitting | aux |
| 32 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 floor | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 floor | det |
| 35 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sitting | obl |
| 36 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 sitting | conj |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 dejected | advmod |
| 38 | dejected | deject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 looking | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the Fairy | each door | with fairy's wand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Experiencer with wand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | spring | past | door | instantly, open property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | King not said here | forty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forty=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | come | past | King | to the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | sit | past · progressive | the Princess | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | ||||
| 7 | look | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | deject | participle | the Princess not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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