The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 8
And the Princess, rejoicing to find herself free once more, skipped out into the garden, the prettiest little green Grasshopper in the world.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: rejoice, find, skip out · To what, where: Princess, prettiest little green Grasshopper, garden
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rejoicing | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoicing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoicing | punct |
| 5 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rejoicing | xcomp |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 find | xcomp |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 find | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 skipped | punct |
| 13 | skipped | skip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rejoicing | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 skipped | compound:prt |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 skipped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Grasshopper | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Grasshopper | det |
| 20 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 Grasshopper | amod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Grasshopper | amod |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Grasshopper | amod |
| 23 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 skipped | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Grasshopper | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoicing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | gerund | the Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | Princess | free property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||
| 3 | skip out | participle | the Princess not said here | the prettiest little green Grasshopper in the world | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination |
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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