The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 55
But when it came, and the princess saw the horrible figure, she screamed out, ‘What! marry this dirty beggar?
Who acts: answer, princess · What happens: come, see, scream out, marry · To what, where: horrible figure, dirty beggar
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 screamed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 screamed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 figure | det |
| 11 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 figure | amod |
| 12 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 screamed | nsubj |
| 15 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 screamed | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 marry | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 marry | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 marry | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 marry | punct |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 screamed | conj |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 beggar | det |
| 23 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beggar | amod |
| 24 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marry | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | answer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the princess | the horrible figure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | scream out speech: express | past | princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | marry | infinitive | princess not said here | this dirty beggar | 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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