The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 31
The Princess had been named Mayblossom, because she was as fresh and blooming as Spring itself, and she grew up tall and beautiful, and everything she did and said was charming.
Who acts: Princess, everything · What happens: name, be, bloom, grow up, do, say · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, everything), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 named | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 named | aux:pass |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Mayblossom | Mayblossom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fresh | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 fresh | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fresh | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fresh | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 fresh | case |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 named | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blooming | cc |
| 14 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 fresh | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Spring | case |
| 16 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blooming | obl |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 Spring | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 grew | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grew | nsubj |
| 21 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 named | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 grew | compound:prt |
| 23 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grew | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beautiful | cc |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tall | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 charming | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 charming | cc |
| 28 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 34 charming | nsubj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 did | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 everything | acl:relcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 did | conj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 charming | aux |
| 34 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 grew | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · perfect · passive | the Princess | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Princess | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | Princess not said here | spring | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow up | past | Princess | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past | Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | charm | past · progressive | everything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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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