The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 108
And so saying she wandered away into the thickest part of the wood, and sat down under a thorn tree, where a nightingale was singing.
Who acts: Princess, nightingale · What happens: say, wander away, sit down, sing · To what, where: thickest part, thorn tree · 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, nightingale), 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 wandered | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 saying | advmod |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 part | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 part | det |
| 9 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 part | amod |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 sat | compound:prt |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 singing | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 singing | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 nightingale | det |
| 25 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 singing | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 singing | aux |
| 27 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sat | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wander away | past | Princess | the thickest part of the wood | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into part=Destination | |||
| 3 | sit down | past | Princess not said here | a thorn tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | a nightingale | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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