The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 51
Terrified as the Princess was, she did not hesitate to obey, and hastened to put back all the other precious things precisely as she had found them.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: not be, obey, hasten, put back, find · To what, where: other precious things, courage
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 (Princess), 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 | Terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 hesitate | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hesitate | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hesitate | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hesitate | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hesitate | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hesitate | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hesitate | advmod |
| 10 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Terrified | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 obey | mark |
| 12 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hesitate | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hastened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hastened | cc |
| 15 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Terrified | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hastened | xcomp |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 put | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 things | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 things | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 22 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obj |
| 24 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 28 found | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 put | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · do-support | the Princess | hesitate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | obey | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | put back | to-infinitive | all other precious things | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | |||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | Princess | courage | precisely property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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