The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 93
She went towards the altar, and right up to it, but there was no one there; then she screamed again,
Who acts: princess, one · What happens: go, be, scream · To what, where: altar
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, one), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 altar | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 altar | det |
| 5 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 it | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 it | cc |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 it | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 one | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 screamed | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 screamed | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 screamed | nsubj |
| 22 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 screamed | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | princess | the altar | up altar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards altar=Initial_Location up it=Destination | |||
| 2 | be | past | no one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | past | princess | then; again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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