The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 13
While the Princess was still looking after him in horror, her attention was attracted by a rushing noise over her head, and looking up she saw two chariots approaching rapidly from opposite directions.
Who acts: Princess, rushing noise, carbuncle, two chariots · What happens: look, attract, rush, look up, see, approach · To what, where: attention, two chariots, opposite directions
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Princess, rushing noise, carbuncle, two chariots), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 looking | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 looking | advmod |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 saw | advcl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looking | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 horror | case |
| 10 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 attracted | punct |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 attention | nmod:poss |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 attracted | aux:pass |
| 15 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 looking | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 noise | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 18 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 noise | amod |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attracted | obl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noise | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looking | cc |
| 25 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 saw | advcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 looking | compound:prt |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 chariots | nummod |
| 30 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 saw | obj |
| 31 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 chariots | acl |
| 32 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 31 approaching | advmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 directions | case |
| 34 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 directions | amod |
| 35 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 approaching | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | the Princess | after Fanfaronade; still | in horror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in horror=Theme | |||
| 2 | attract | past · passive | a rushing noise over carbuncle's head | carbuncle's attention | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | look up | gerund | carbuncle not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | past | carbuncle | two chariots | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | approach | gerund | two chariots not said here | opposite directions | rapidly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from direction=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | attend | carbuncle | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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