The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 22
When he reached them, of course he recognised the Princess, and he went down on his knees and kissed her hand quite joyfully.
Who acts: Hat · What happens: reach, recognise, go down, kiss · To what, where: ladies, Princess, knees, hand
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 (Hat), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 recognised | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 recognised | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 9 recognised | advmod |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 of | fixed |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 recognised | nsubj |
| 9 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 recognised | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 recognised | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 knees | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knees | nmod:poss |
| 19 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kissed | cc |
| 21 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kissed | obj |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 joyfully | advmod |
| 25 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 21 kissed | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Hat | ladies = lady | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recognise | past | Hat | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go down | past | Hat | Hat's knees | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||
| 4 | kiss | past | Hat not said here | Chatterer's hand | joyfully property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-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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