The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 7
In the meantime the Princess Cabbage-Stalk had reached the palace, travelling in a litter.
What happens: reach, travel · To what, where: Princess Cabbage, meantime, litter
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cabbage | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cabbage | compound |
| 6 | Cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Stalk | punct |
| 8 | Stalk | Stalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cabbage | appos |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | aux |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 travelling | punct |
| 14 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 reached | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 litter | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 litter | det |
| 17 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 travelling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the Princess Cabbage | the meantime | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | a litter | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in litter=Trajectory |
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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