The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 90
No sooner had he gone than the princess hastened to her father and complained of her sufferings.
Who acts: Ciccu, princess · What happens: go, hasten, complain, suffer · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, princess), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 gone | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 9 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 princess | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hastened | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 complained | cc |
| 14 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sufferings | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 complained | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Ciccu | than the princess; soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the princess not said here | to princess's father result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to father=Result | ||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | past | Ciccu not said here | of princess's sufferings | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | suffer | princess | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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