The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 43
So the Princess went very sorrowfully to her own room, and her nurse, seeing her tears, asked what was vexing her.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: go, see, ask, vex · To what, where: nurse, own room, tears, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sorrowfully | advmod |
| 6 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 10 room | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 room | amod |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nurse | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 nurse | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeing | punct |
| 16 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tears | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seeing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 vexing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 vexing | aux |
| 23 | vexing | vex | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 vexing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Princess | Princess's nurse | Princess's own room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | the Princess not said here | Princess's tears | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | vex | past · progressive | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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