The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 83

The eyes of the fairest in the world brightened as she looked, and she sprang on the horse’s saddle, crying, ‘Oh, I really must ride him a little!’

Who acts: princess, fairest, I · What happens: brighten, look, spring, cry, ride · To what, where: world, saddle, king

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, fairest, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eyes	det
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fairest	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fairest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairest	det
5	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 sprang	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fairest	obl
9	brightened	brighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 world	acl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brightened	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sprang	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sprang	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sprang	nsubj
16	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 saddle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saddle	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 horse	case
21	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sprang	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crying	punct
23	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sprang	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ride	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 ride	punct
26	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	31 ride	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Oh	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 ride	nsubj
29	really	really	ADV	_	31 ride	advmod
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 ride	aux
31	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sprang	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ride	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 little	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ride	obl:unmarked
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 ride	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	brighten	participle		the world not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	look	past	princess				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	spring	past	the fairest		the horse's saddle		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saddle=Trajectory
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the fairest not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ride	must	I	king		a little obl:unmarked	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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