The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 62
All the streets were spread with carpets, and the windows were full of ladies who were waiting to see the Princess, and carried baskets of flowers and sweetmeats to shower upon her as she passed.
Who acts: windows, ladies, Princess · What happens: spread, be, wait, see, carry, shower · To what, where: streets, Princess, baskets
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 (windows, ladies, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 streets | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 streets | det |
| 3 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spread | aux:pass |
| 5 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 carpets | case |
| 7 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spread | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 full | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 windows | det |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 full | cop |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spread | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ladies | case |
| 15 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 waiting | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 waiting | aux |
| 18 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ladies | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 waiting | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carried | cc |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spread | parataxis |
| 26 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 carried | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 flowers | case |
| 28 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 baskets | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sweetmeats | cc |
| 30 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 baskets | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 shower | mark |
| 32 | shower | shower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 carried | advcl |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shower | obl |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 passed | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 passed | nsubj |
| 37 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 shower | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | all streets | with carpets | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with carpet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the windows | of ladies; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | ladies | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | ladies not said here | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | carry | past | baskets of flowers and sweetmeats | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | |||||
| 6 | shower | to-infinitive | upon Princess | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme upon she=Destination | |||||
| 7 | pass | past | Princess | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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