The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 53

‘I am from Towelland,’ said the King’s daughter, and as she spoke she dropped her riding-whip, and while the Prince was stooping to pick it up she said:

Who acts: I, Towelland, daughter, Prince · What happens: be, say, speak, drop, stoop, pick up · To what, where: Towelland, riding whip, whip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Towelland, daughter, Prince), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 Towelland	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 Towelland	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Towelland	cop
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Towelland	case
5	Towelland	Towelland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Towelland	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 Towelland	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 King	case
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spoke	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spoke	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 spoke	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spoke	nsubj
17	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dropped	nsubj
19	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spoke	ccomp
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 whip	nmod:poss
21	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whip	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 riding	punct
23	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dropped	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stooping	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stooping	cc
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 stooping	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Prince	det
28	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 stooping	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stooping	aux
30	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pick	mark
32	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 stooping	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pick	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 pick	compound:prt
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 said	nsubj
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	present	I		Towelland	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Towelland			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	daughter			tree rules
4	drop	past	daughter	daughter's riding whip		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme
5	stoop	past · progressive	the Prince			tree rules
6	pick up	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	whip		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
7	say speech: assert	past	daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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