The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 144
The princess sat up in her lily-bed and asked who was there.
Who acts: princess · What happens: sit up, ask, be · To what, where: lily bed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bed | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 lily | punct |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 there | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | past | the princess | princess's lily bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the princess not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | there property | 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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