The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 154
The prince and princess helped her into the carriage and wished her good luck.
Who acts: prince · What happens: help, wish · To what, where: Gerda, carriage, good luck
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 (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 princess | cc |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 5 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 helped | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 carriage | det |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wished | cc |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 helped | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 luck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 luck | amod |
| 14 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wished | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | the prince and princess | Gerda | the carriage | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | wish | past | the prince and princess not said here | Gerda's good luck | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot luck=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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