The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 8
Indeed, though she was the most amiable creature in the world, there was no concealing the fact that she was frightful, and so lame that she always went about with a crutch, and people called her Princess Cabbage-Stalk.
Who acts: alliance, people · What happens: be, conceal, go about, call · To what, where: amiable creature, world, fact, Princess Cabbage Stalk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (alliance, 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 9 creature | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 creature | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 creature | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 amiable | advmod |
| 8 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 creature | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 creature | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 concealing | det |
| 17 | concealing | conceal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 was | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fact | det |
| 19 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 concealing | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 frightful | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 frightful | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 frightful | cop |
| 23 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fact | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lame | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lame | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 lame | advmod |
| 27 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 frightful | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 went | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 30 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 31 went | advmod |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lame | advcl |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 crutch | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 crutch | det |
| 35 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 called | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 called | cc |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 called | nsubj |
| 39 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 frightful | conj |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 Stalk | nmod:poss |
| 41 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Stalk | compound |
| 42 | Cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Stalk | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Cabbage | punct |
| 44 | Stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 called | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | alliance | the amiable creature | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conceal | gerund | the fact | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | alliance | the fact not said here | frightful property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | alliance not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | go about | past | alliance | with a crutch; about, always property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with crutch=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | call | past | people | alliance's Princess Cabbage Stalk | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stalk=Recipient |
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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