The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 96
And he stared hard at the princess as she clapped her hands with joy and ran up to them, crying, ‘ Oh, do let us keep that delicious beast for to-night; it will make such a nice plaything.’
Who acts: luck, princess, us, beast · What happens: stare, clap, run up, cry, do, let · To what, where: hands, us, delicious beast, nice plaything
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 (luck, princess, us, beast), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stared | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stared | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 clapped | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 clapped | nsubj |
| 10 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clapped | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clapped | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crying | punct |
| 21 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 ran | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 24 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 26 do | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Oh | punct |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 crying | conj |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 do | ccomp |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 let | obj |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 let | xcomp |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 beast | det |
| 31 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beast | amod |
| 32 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 to | punct |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 make | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 make | aux |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stared | parataxis |
| 41 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 plaything | det:predet |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 plaything | det |
| 43 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 plaything | amod |
| 44 | plaything | plaything | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | luck | at the princess; hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at princess=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clap | past | princess | princess's hands | with joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | run up | past | luck not said here | hands = hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to they=Result | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | luck not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | infinitive | luck not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | luck not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | keep | infinitive | us not said here | that delicious beast | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | |||
| 8 | make | future | beast | such nice plaything | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material plaything=Product |
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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