The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 92
Then, turning to the little Princess, she kissed her rosy lips three times, saying:
Who acts: Princess · What happens: turn, kiss, say · To what, where: rosy lips · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | 10 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kissed | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Princess | amod |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turning | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kissed | nsubj |
| 10 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lips | nmod:poss |
| 12 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lips | amod |
| 13 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kissed | obj |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 times | nummod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kissed | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Princess not said here | to the little Princess result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to princess=Result | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Princess | Princess's rosy lips | then; time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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