The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 101
The princess jumped out of bed screaming, ‘The lion! the lion!’ but her friends thought it was a nightmare, and did not trouble themselves to get up.
Who acts: princess, friends, Lion · What happens: jump out, scream, think, be, do, get up · To what, where: bed, nightmare, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, friends, Lion), 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 | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 jumped | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lion | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 lion | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 lion | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lion | det |
| 14 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 lion | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 lion | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friends | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 nightmare | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 nightmare | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 nightmare | det |
| 24 | nightmare | nightmare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 did | cc |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 trouble | advmod |
| 29 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 did | obj |
| 30 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 did | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 get | mark |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 did | advcl |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 get | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump out | past | the princess | bed | the lion obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | the princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | princess's friends | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Lion | a nightmare | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | past | trouble | friends = friend obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | get up | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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