The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 63
They had hardly begun to get the Princess ready when a dwarf arrived, mounted upon an elephant.
Who acts: streets, dwarf · What happens: begin, get, arrive, mount · To what, where: Princess
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 (streets, dwarf), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begun | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begun | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 begun | advmod |
| 4 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begun | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 arrived | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dwarf | det |
| 12 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 get | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mounted | punct |
| 15 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 arrived | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 elephant | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 elephant | det |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mounted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · perfect | streets = street | hardly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | streets = street not said here | the Princess | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | arrive | participle | a dwarf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mount | participle | a dwarf not said here | upon a elephant | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon elephant=Destination |
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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