The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 96
Without losing a moment she ran with it to Fanfaronade, crying gaily:
Who acts: Princess · What happens: lose, run, cry · To what, where: Fanfaronade
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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 losing | mark |
| 2 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ran | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 losing | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ran | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Fanfaronade | case |
| 10 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crying | punct |
| 12 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ran | advcl |
| 13 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 crying | xcomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | Princess not said here | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Princess | Fanfaronade | with tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to fanfaronade=Result | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | Princess not said here | gaily 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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