The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 101
She shrieked, and clung tightly to the saddle, but it was all in vain; she longed to fly, but something outside herself proved too strong for her, and she was forced to take the path that led to the House of Dead Leaves.
Who acts: princess, saddle, something, path · What happens: shriek, cling, be, long, fly, prove · To what, where: princess, path
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, saddle, something, path), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shrieked | nsubj |
| 2 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clung | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 clung | cc |
| 5 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shrieked | conj |
| 6 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 5 clung | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 saddle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 saddle | det |
| 9 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clung | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vain | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 vain | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 vain | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 vain | cop |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 vain | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clung | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 longed | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 longed | nsubj |
| 19 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shrieked | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fly | mark |
| 21 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 longed | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 proved | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 proved | cc |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 proved | nsubj |
| 25 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 26 herself | case |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 something | nmod |
| 27 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shrieked | conj |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 strong | advmod |
| 29 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 proved | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 strong | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 forced | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 forced | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 forced | aux:pass |
| 36 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 proved | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 take | mark |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 forced | xcomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 path | det |
| 40 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 take | obj |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 led | nsubj |
| 42 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 path | acl:relcl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 House | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 House | det |
| 45 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 led | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Leaves | case |
| 47 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Leaves | compound |
| 48 | Leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 House | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | princess | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | cling | past | princess not said here | to the saddle; tightly property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to saddle=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | saddle | all, vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | long | past | princess | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | prove | past | something | strong property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | force | past · passive | princess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | take | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the path | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 9 | lead | past | the path | to the House of Dead Leaves | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to house=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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