The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 29
After supper they went into another lovely room, where the crystal walls were covered with pictures, and the Princess saw with great surprise that her own history was represented, even down to the moment when Percinet found her in the forest.
Who acts: stags, Princess, Percinet · What happens: go, cover, see, represent, find · To what, where: lovely room, crystal walls, own history, Princess, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stags, Princess, Percinet), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 supper | case |
| 2 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 room | det |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 room | amod |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 covered | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 covered | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 12 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walls | compound |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 covered | aux:pass |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 room | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pictures | case |
| 17 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 surprise | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 surprise | amod |
| 25 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 represented | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 history | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 history | amod |
| 29 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 represented | aux:pass |
| 31 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 saw | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 down | punct |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 down | advmod |
| 34 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 represented | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 moment | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 moment | det |
| 37 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 down | obl |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 found | advmod |
| 39 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 found | nsubj |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 represented | advcl |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 found | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 forest | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 forest | det |
| 44 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 found | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | stags = stag | another lovely room | after supper | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the crystal walls | with pictures | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with picture=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the Princess | with great surprise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | represent | past · passive | Princess's own history | down property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Percinet | Princess | the forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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