The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 71
And when the princess saw the mantle she was delighted, for her wedding mantle had been spoilt with all the other things, and it was too late to make another.
Who acts: princess, mantle · What happens: see, be, spoil, make · To what, where: mantle, wedding mantle, another
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, mantle), 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 | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mantle | det |
| 7 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 delighted | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 delighted | cop |
| 10 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mantle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spoilt | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 spoilt | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mantle | compound |
| 15 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spoilt | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 spoilt | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 spoilt | aux:pass |
| 18 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 things | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 things | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spoilt | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 late | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 late | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 late | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 late | cop |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 late | advmod |
| 29 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 late | advcl |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 make | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the princess | the mantle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mantle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | princess | the mantle not said here | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spoil | past · perfect · passive | princess's wedding mantle | with all other things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | mantle | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | mantle not said here | another | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset another=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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