The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 88
Weeping she came down the mountain, and weeping she joined the prince, who was awaiting her at the bottom; and when he had heard her story he comforted her, and bade her be of good courage, and to do the bidding of the giant.
Who acts: mountain, weeping, prince · What happens: weep, come down, join, await, hear, comfort · To what, where: giant, prince, bottom, story, bidding
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain, weeping, prince), 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 | Weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | csubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Weeping | obj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 joined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 joined | cc |
| 9 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 joined | nsubj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 joined | nsubj |
| 11 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 joined | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 awaiting | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 awaiting | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 awaiting | aux |
| 17 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 prince | acl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 awaiting | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 bottom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bottom | det |
| 21 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 awaiting | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 heard | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 heard | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 heard | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 heard | aux |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | parataxis |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 story | nmod:poss |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heard | obj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 comforted | nsubj |
| 31 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 story | acl:relcl |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 comforted | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bade | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bade | cc |
| 35 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heard | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 courage | nmod:poss |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 courage | cop |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 courage | case |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 courage | amod |
| 40 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bade | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 do | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 do | cc |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 do | mark |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 courage | acl:relcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 bidding | det |
| 46 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 do | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 giant | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 giant | det |
| 49 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bidding | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | gerund | giant | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come down | past | the mountain | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | join | past | weeping | the prince | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | ||||
| 4 | await | past · progressive | the prince | giant | the bottom | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | prince | giant's story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | comfort | past | prince | giant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is | infinitive | of giant's good courage | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the bidding of the giant | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | bid | the giant | nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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