The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 75
He was still watching her admiringly when the Princess opened her eyes, and as she also recognised him they were soon great friends.
Who acts: chance, Princess, eyes · What happens: watch, open, recognise, be · To what, where: Princess, eyes, chance, great friends
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 (chance, Princess, eyes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watching | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 watching | advmod |
| 4 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watching | obj |
| 6 | admiringly | admiringly | ADV | _ | 4 watching | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 opened | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watching | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 recognised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 recognised | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 recognised | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 recognised | nsubj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 recognised | advmod |
| 18 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 recognised | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 friends | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 friends | cop |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 friends | advmod |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 friends | amod |
| 24 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 recognised | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | chance | Princess | still | admiringly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 2 | open | past | the Princess | Princess's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | recognise | past | Princess | chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | eyes = eye | great friends | soon property | tree rules |
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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