The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 126
But a Princess was standing at a window in the King’s palace watching the struggle.
Who acts: Princess, palace · What happens: stand, watch · To what, where: window, struggle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, palace), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 standing | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | aux |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 King | case |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 window | nmod |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 palace | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 struggle | det |
| 16 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | a Princess | a window in the King's palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | the King's palace not said here | the struggle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/126/