The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 51
The princess, Gon’s new mistress, was so good and kind that everybody loved her, and she would have led a happy life, had it not been for a serpent who had fallen in love with her, and was constantly annoying her by his presence.
Who acts: princess, everybody, serpent · What happens: be, love, lead, have, not be, fall · To what, where: Princess, happy life, mistress, love
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, everybody, serpent), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 good | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mistress | punct |
| 4 | Gon | Gon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Gon | case |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mistress | amod |
| 7 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 princess | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kind | cc |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 good | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 loved | mark |
| 15 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kind | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loved | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 led | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 led | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 led | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 led | aux |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 good | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 life | det |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 life | amod |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | obj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 serpent | advmod |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 serpent | cop |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 serpent | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 serpent | det |
| 34 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obl |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 fallen | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 fallen | aux |
| 37 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 serpent | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 love | case |
| 39 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fallen | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fallen | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 annoying | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 annoying | cc |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 annoying | cop |
| 45 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 46 annoying | advmod |
| 46 | annoying | annoying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 had | conj |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 annoying | obl |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 presence | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 presence | nmod:poss |
| 50 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 annoying | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess and Gon's new mistress | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the princess and Gon's new mistress not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | love | past | everybody | Princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lead | would · perfect | Princess | a happy life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | mistress | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 6 | not is | participle | for a serpent | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fall | past · perfect | a serpent | love | with Princess | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 8 | is | past | by Gon's presence; Princess obl; annoying, constantly 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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