The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 75
Then the Princess was delivered, and she thanked Minnikin and blessed him for saving her.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: deliver, thank, bless, save · To what, where: Princess, Minnikin
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 delivered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delivered | aux:pass |
| 5 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thanked | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thanked | nsubj |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delivered | parataxis |
| 10 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thanked | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blessed | cc |
| 12 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thanked | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 blessed | obj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 saving | mark |
| 15 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 blessed | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · passive | the Princess | then | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | Princess | Minnikin | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minnikin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bless | past | Princess not said here | Minnikin | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | gerund | Princess not said here | Princess | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.
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