The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 110
And this time the Princess, who was fainting with hunger, took the nightingale’s advice, and ate what she found all by herself.
Who acts: Princess, time, nightingale · What happens: faint, take, eat, find · To what, where: advice
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, time, 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 | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fainting | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fainting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fainting | aux |
| 9 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Princess | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hunger | case |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fainting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nightingale | det |
| 15 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 advice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 nightingale | case |
| 17 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ate | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ate | cc |
| 20 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 found | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ate | conj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 herself | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 herself | case |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 found | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past · progressive | the Princess | with hunger | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past | this time | the nightingale's advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | this time not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | past | nightingale | by nightingale | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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