The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 82
When he saw that she came empty-handed he got up and left her, grumbling to himself.
Who acts: Fanfaronade, Princess · What happens: see, come, hand, get up, leave, grumble · To what, where: Princess, 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 (Fanfaronade, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 handed | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 empty | punct |
| 9 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 got | advcl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 got | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grumbling | punct |
| 17 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 left | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 grumbling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Fanfaronade | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hand | participle | Fanfaronade not said here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get up | past | Fanfaronade | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | leave | past | Fanfaronade not said here | Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grumble speech: other | gerund | Fanfaronade not said here | Fanfaronade | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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