The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 80

When the message was delivered the princess sprang to her feet with delight, for she had been thinking that after all it was not much use to have a lovely mantle and elegant petticoats if she had no dress, and she knew the tailors would never be ready in time.

Who acts: delivered princess, princess, all, tailors · What happens: deliver, spring, think, be, have, know · To what, where: message, feet, much use, lovely mantle, dress · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (delivered princess, princess, all, tailors), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 delivered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 message	det
3	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delivered	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delivered	aux:pass
5	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 princess	amod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sprang	nsubj
8	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sprang	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 delight	case
13	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sprang	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thinking	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 thinking	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thinking	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thinking	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 thinking	aux
19	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sprang	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 all	mark
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 use	nsubj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 use	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 use	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 use	amod
27	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thinking	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 use	acl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mantle	det
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mantle	amod
32	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 petticoats	cc
34	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 petticoats	amod
35	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 mantle	conj
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 have	advcl
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 dress	det
40	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 knew	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 knew	cc
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 knew	nsubj
44	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sprang	parataxis
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tailors	det
46	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 ready	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 ready	aux
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 ready	advmod
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 ready	cop
50	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 knew	ccomp
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 time	case
52	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ready	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deliver	past · passive		the message				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	spring	past	the delivered princess		princess's feet		with delight	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination
3	think speech: other	past · perfect · progressive	princess					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	all	much use				tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive	princess not said here	a lovely mantle and elegant petticoats				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Patient
6	have a condition, not said to happen	past	princess	no dress				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient
7	know	past	princess					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	not is	would	the tailors			time	ready 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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