The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 60
Then Benjamin said: ‘Our sister is here!’ and he lifted up the tub and the Princess stepped forward, with her royal robes and with the golden star on her forehead, looking so lovely and sweet and charming that they all fell in love with her on the spot.
Who acts: Benjamin, sister, Princess, robes · What happens: say, be, lift up, step forward, look, charm · To what, where: tub, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benjamin, sister, Princess, robes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
| 6 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 here | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 here | cop |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lifted | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lifted | nsubj |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 lifted | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tub | det |
| 17 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stepped | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 stepped | nsubj |
| 21 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lifted | conj |
| 22 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 21 stepped | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 robes | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 robes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 robes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 robes | amod |
| 27 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stepped | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 star | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 star | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 star | det |
| 31 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 star | amod |
| 32 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 robes | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 forehead | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 35 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 star | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 looking | punct |
| 37 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 stepped | advcl |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 lovely | advmod |
| 39 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 looking | xcomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sweet | cc |
| 41 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 lovely | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 charming | cc |
| 43 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 looking | conj |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 fell | mark |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fell | nsubj |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 they | det |
| 47 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 charming | advcl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 love | case |
| 49 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fell | obl |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 her | case |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fell | obl |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 spot | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 spot | det |
| 54 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fell | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Benjamin | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Our sister | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lift up | past | Benjamin | the tub | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Theme | ||||
| 4 | step forward | past | the Princess | with Princess's royal robes and the golden star on Princess's forehead; forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | the Princess not said here | lovely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | charm | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | fall | past | robes = robe | love | with Princess; on the spot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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