The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 55
At the sight of him the Princess lost her wits entirely, and determined that Fanfaronade and nobody else would she marry.
Who acts: Princess, Fanfaronade · What happens: lose, determine, marry, sight · To what, where: wits, sight, horse
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, Fanfaronade), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wits | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 8 lost | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 determined | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 determined | cc |
| 14 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 16 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nobody | cc |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 Fanfaronade | conj |
| 19 | else | else | ADV | _ | 18 nobody | advmod |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 marry | aux |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | nsubj |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 determined | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the Princess | Princess's wits | the sight of horse | entirely property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | determine | past | the Princess not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry | would | Fanfaronade | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sight | horse | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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