The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 101
‘And, not one bit afraid, up he went to the princess, who was sitting on a large pearl as round as a spinning wheel.
Who acts: Kay, princess · What happens: go, sit, spin · To what, where: large pearl
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 afraid | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 bit | nummod |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afraid | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sitting | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sitting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sitting | aux |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 princess | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 pearl | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pearl | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pearl | amod |
| 22 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 round | advmod |
| 24 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pearl | amod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 wheel | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wheel | det |
| 27 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 wheel | amod |
| 28 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 round | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Kay | to the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | the princess | a large pearl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pearl=Location | ||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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