The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 84
At this moment Florimond and the Fairy Douceline appeared in great splendour, and the Fairy, as she descended from her chariot, said with a smile:
Who acts: Florimond · What happens: appear, descend, say · To what, where: great splendour, chariot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Florimond), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 4 | Florimond | Florimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Douceline | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Douceline | det |
| 7 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Douceline | compound |
| 8 | Douceline | Douceline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Florimond | conj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 splendour | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 splendour | amod |
| 12 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fairy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Fairy | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fairy | det |
| 16 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 splendour | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 descended | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 descended | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 descended | nsubj |
| 20 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 chariot | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 descended | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 smile | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 smile | det |
| 28 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Florimond and the Fairy Douceline | great splendour and the Fairy | moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in splendour=Location | |||
| 2 | descend | past | Florimond | Florimond's chariot | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from chariot=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Florimond and the Fairy Douceline not said here | with a smile | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner |
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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