The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 9
When he had got inside he found the other Princess sitting sewing, but when she saw Minnikin she clapped her hands.
Who acts: Minnikin, other Princess, Princess · What happens: get, find, sit, see, clap · To what, where: sewing, Minnikin, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minnikin, other Princess, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 found | parataxis |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Princess | amod |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | nsubj |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 found | ccomp |
| 12 | sewing | sewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | conj |
| 18 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 clapped | nsubj |
| 20 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 clapped | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Minnikin | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Minnikin | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | the other Princess | sewing | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sewing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Princess | Minnikin | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | clap | past | Princess | Princess's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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