The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 142
Everything the Princess saw was new to her, and in passing through mountains, valleys, and towns, she asked a thousand questions.
Who acts: Princess, Everything · What happens: see, be, pass, ask · To what, where: princess, mountains, thousand questions
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Everything), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 new | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Everything | acl:relcl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 new | cop |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 new | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asked | cc |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 passing | mark |
| 12 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 asked | advcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 passing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 valleys | punct |
| 16 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mountains | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 towns | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 towns | cc |
| 19 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mountains | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 passing | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 new | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 thousand | det |
| 24 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 questions | nummod |
| 25 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 asked | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Everything | princess | new property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pass | gerund | princess not said here | mountains and valleys and towns | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mountain=Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | princess | thousand questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=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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