The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 33
When she had been dressed by the four-and-twenty maidens in a charming robe which the Queen had sent for her, and in which she looked prettier than ever, Prince Percinet came to see her, and was bitterly disappointed when she told him what she had been thinking.
Who acts: Queen, Princess, Percinet · What happens: dress, send, look, come, see, be · To what, where: Princess, charming robe, Percinet, Prince · 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 (Queen, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 four | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 four | det |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dressed | obl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 four | cc |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 maidens | nummod |
| 13 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 and | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 robe | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 robe | det |
| 16 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 robe | compound |
| 17 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maidens | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sent | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sent | aux |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 robe | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 looked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 looked | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 looked | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sent | conj |
| 31 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 looked | xcomp |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 ever | case |
| 33 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 prettier | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 came | punct |
| 35 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Percinet | nmod:desc |
| 36 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 came | nsubj |
| 37 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 looked | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 see | mark |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 came | advcl |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 see | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 disappointed | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 disappointed | cc |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 disappointed | cop |
| 44 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 45 disappointed | advmod |
| 45 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 came | conj |
| 46 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 told | advmod |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 told | nsubj |
| 48 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 disappointed | advcl |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 told | iobj |
| 50 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 54 thinking | obj |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 thinking | nsubj |
| 52 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 thinking | aux |
| 53 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 54 thinking | aux |
| 54 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 told | ccomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · perfect · passive | Princess | by the four | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect | the Queen | a charming robe | for Princess | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | past | Princess | pretty property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Percinet Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | Percinet Prince not said here | Percinet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Percinet Prince not said here | bitterly, disappointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | past | Princess | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | think speech: other | past · perfect · progressive | Princess | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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