The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 69
When the Princess was arrayed in all the gorgeous things the Dwarf had brought, she was more beautiful than ever, and as she walked along the streets the people cried: ‘How pretty she is!
Who acts: gorgeous things, Princess, people · What happens: array, bring, be, walk, cry · To what, where: Princess, gorgeous things, Dwarf, streets
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 (gorgeous things, Princess, people), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrayed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arrayed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrayed | aux:pass |
| 5 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 is | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 things | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 things | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 9 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrayed | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dwarf | det |
| 12 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beautiful | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beautiful | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arrayed | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 beautiful | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 walked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 walked | cc |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 walked | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 walked | nsubj |
| 26 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrayed | conj |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 streets | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 streets | det |
| 29 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 walked | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 people | det |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 cried | nsubj |
| 32 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 streets | acl:relcl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrayed | punct |
| 34 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 is | punct |
| 35 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 pretty | advmod |
| 36 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 38 is | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 is | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 38 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | array | past · passive | the Princess | all gorgeous things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | all gorgeous things not said here | the Dwarf | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Princess | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | Princess | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along street=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | the people | the streets not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Topic | ||||
| 6 | be | present | Princess | pretty property | vn exist-47.1 «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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