The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 30
By the time they had finished the peacock had come back with a robe for the Princess, in which the Fairy arrayed her.
Who acts: Admiral, peacock, Fairy · What happens: finish, come back, array · To what, where: time, toad
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 (Admiral, peacock, Fairy), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 peacock | det |
| 8 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 robe | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 robe | det |
| 14 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Princess | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 robe | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 arrayed | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 arrayed | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Fairy | det |
| 22 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 arrayed | nsubj |
| 23 | arrayed | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 arrayed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Admiral | the time not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality time=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come back | past · perfect | the peacock | time | with a robe for the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | array | past | the Fairy | toad | tree rules |
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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