The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 56
The Princess was now exceedingly delighted, but then she remembered her sisters, and wished that they too were free.
Who acts: Princess, sisters · What happens: be, remember, wish · To what, where: sisters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, sisters), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remembered | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 remembered | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 remembered | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remembered | nsubj |
| 11 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remembered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wished | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wished | cc |
| 16 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 remembered | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 free | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 free | nsubj |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 free | advmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 free | cop |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wished | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princess | now | delighted, exceedingly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remember | past | Princess | Princess's sisters | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | past | Princess not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is | past | sisters = sister | free property | 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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