The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 15
The chariots met with a frightful crash in mid-air, and the Princess looked on in breathless anxiety while a furious battle took place between the lovely Fairy with her golden lance, and the hideous little Dwarf and her rusty pike.
Who acts: chariots, Princess, furious battle · What happens: meet, look on, take · To what, where: hideous little Dwarf, place
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 (chariots, Princess, furious battle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chariots | det |
| 2 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 crash | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crash | det |
| 6 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crash | amod |
| 7 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mid-air | case |
| 9 | mid-air | mid-air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crash | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 looked | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 anxiety | case |
| 17 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 anxiety | amod |
| 18 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 took | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 battle | det |
| 21 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 battle | amod |
| 22 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 looked | advcl |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 Fairy | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Fairy | det |
| 27 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Fairy | amod |
| 28 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 lance | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 lance | nmod:poss |
| 31 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 lance | amod |
| 32 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Fairy | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Dwarf | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Dwarf | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Dwarf | det |
| 36 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Dwarf | amod |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Dwarf | amod |
| 38 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 pike | cc |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 pike | nmod:poss |
| 41 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 pike | amod |
| 42 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Dwarf | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the chariots | the hideous little Dwarf and Dwarf's rusty pike | with a frightful crash in mid-air | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with crash=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | look on | past | the Princess | in breathless anxiety | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in anxiety=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a furious battle | place | between the lovely Fairy with battle's golden lance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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