The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 90
At this the Princess was dreadfully vexed, and she sat down under a white rose bush and began to cry bitterly.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: vex, sit down, begin, cry · To what, where: white rose bush
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Princess | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Princess | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 vexed | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vexed | aux:pass |
| 6 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 7 vexed | advmod |
| 7 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vexed | parataxis |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sat | compound:prt |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 bush | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bush | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bush | amod |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bush | compound |
| 17 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 cry | mark |
| 21 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 21 cry | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | at the Princess; dreadfully property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Princess | a white rose bush | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Princess not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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