The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 88
The Princess was looking at the poor creatures in dismay, when the Enchanter suddenly entered, wearing a long black robe and with a crocodile upon his head.
Who acts: Princess, Enchanter · What happens: look, enter, wear · To what, where: long black robe
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, Enchanter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 creatures | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 creatures | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creatures | amod |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looking | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dismay | case |
| 10 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creatures | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entered | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 entered | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Enchanter | det |
| 14 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 entered | advmod |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wearing | punct |
| 18 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 entered | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 robe | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 robe | amod |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 robe | amod |
| 22 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wearing | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 crocodile | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 crocodile | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 crocodile | det |
| 26 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 robe | conj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crocodile | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | the Princess | at the poor creatures in dismay | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at creature=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the Enchanter | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear | gerund | the Enchanter not said here | a long black robe and a crocodile upon enchanter's head | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
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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