The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 24
However, he had it placed in as favourable a light as possible, and sent for the Princess, but the moment she caught sight of it she looked the other way and began to cry.
Who acts: prince, portrait, Princess, moment · What happens: have, place, send, catch, look, begin · To what, where: portrait, favourable light, sight, other way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (prince, portrait, Princess, moment), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 light | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 favourable | case |
| 9 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 light | amod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 possible | mark |
| 13 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 placed | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sent | cc |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princess | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 looked | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 looked | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 caught | nsubj |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 moment | acl:relcl |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sight | nmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 way | amod |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 began | cc |
| 35 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 looked | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 cry | mark |
| 37 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 began | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | prince | portrait | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | place | participle | portrait not said here | a favourable light | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in light=Destination | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | prince not said here | for the Princess | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | catch | past | Princess | sight of portrait | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | past | the moment | the other way | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | the moment not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | the moment not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sight | portrait | 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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