The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 45
And then it was not long before she had it open, and was admiring the treasures it contained as much as Prince Peerless had done before her, and at last she came to the carbuncle box.
Who acts: attention, Princess, Peerless · What happens: not be, have, admire, contain, do, come · To what, where: attention, treasures, much, last
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (attention, Princess, Peerless), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 long | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 long | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 long | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 admiring | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 admiring | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 admiring | aux |
| 15 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 had | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 treasures | det |
| 17 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 admiring | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 contained | nsubj |
| 19 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 contained | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 done | mark |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Peerless | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Peerless | Peerless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 done | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 much | advcl |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 done | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 came | cc |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 last | case |
| 32 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 came | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 contained | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 box | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 box | det |
| 37 | carbuncle | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 box | compound |
| 38 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | attention | then | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | Princess | attention | open property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | admire | past · progressive | Princess not said here | the treasures | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | contain | past | attention | much | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | Peerless Prince | before Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | come | past | Princess | last | to the carbuncle box | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to box=Initial_Location |
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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