The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 93
Presently she was surprised to see the whole bush rustling and shaking, and a soft little voice from the prettiest rosebud said:
Who acts: Princess, whole bush, soft little voice · What happens: be, see, rustle, shake, say · To what, where: whole bush · 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, whole bush, soft little voice), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 surprised | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprised | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bush | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bush | amod |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | rustling | rustle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bush | acl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shaking | cc |
| 12 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 rustling | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voice | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voice | amod |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 rosebud | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rosebud | det |
| 21 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 rosebud | amod |
| 22 | rosebud | rosebud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voice | nmod |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | parataxis |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Princess | presently, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the whole bush | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rustle | gerund | the whole bush not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shake | gerund | the whole bush not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | a soft little voice from the prettiest rosebud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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