The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 104

The Princess, quite astonished, looked round, and saw a big pitcher full of milk, but before she could raise it to her lips the thought of how thirsty Fanfaronade must be, after eating at least fifteen pounds of honey, made her run back to him and say:

Who acts: Princess · What happens: look round, see, raise, eat, make, run back · To what, where: big pitcher, pitcher, lips, fifteen pounds, Princess, thirsty Fanfaronade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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), 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	5 astonished	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 astonished	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 astonished	advmod
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct
7	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 astonished	conj
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 looked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pitcher	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pitcher	amod
14	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pitcher	amod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 milk	case
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 full	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 raise	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 raise	cc
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 raise	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 raise	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 raise	aux
23	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 saw	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 raise	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 lips	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lips	nmod:poss
27	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 raise	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thought	det
29	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 be	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Fanfaronade	case
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 thirsty	advmod
32	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Fanfaronade	amod
33	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 thought	nmod
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 lips	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eating	punct
37	after	after	SCONJ	_	38 eating	mark
38	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 raise	advcl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 least	case
40	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 fifteen	nmod
41	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 pounds	nummod
42	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 eating	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 honey	case
44	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pounds	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 made	punct
46	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 made	obj
48	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 made	xcomp
49	back	back	ADV	_	48 run	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 back	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 say	cc
53	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 run	conj
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look round	participle				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past		a big pitcher			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitcher=Stimulus
3	raise	could	Princess	pitcher	Princess's lips		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lip=Destination
4	eat	gerund	Princess not said here	fifteen pounds of honey			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Patient
5	make	past		Princess			tree rules
6	run back	infinitive	Princess not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	infinitive	Princess not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	think			thirsty Fanfaronade			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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