The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 35
When she came to herself everybody was looking for the Princess in the greatest terror and confusion, but as she did not appear, the King said to his page:
Who acts: Queen, everybody, King · What happens: come, look, not appear, say, page · To what, where: Queen, greatest terror, page · 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 (Queen, everybody, King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 looking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looking | aux |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 terror | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 terror | det |
| 14 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 terror | amod |
| 15 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 confusion | cc |
| 17 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 terror | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 appear | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 appear | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 appear | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 appear | advmod |
| 24 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appear | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 page | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 page | nmod:poss |
| 31 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Queen | Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | everybody | the greatest terror and confusion | for the Princess | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for princess=Theme in terror=Location | |||
| 3 | not appear | past · do-support | Queen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the King | King's page | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to page=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | page | King | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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