The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 65
The other day she came to the throne, and that is not so pleasant as people think.
Who acts: princess, that, people · What happens: come, not be, think · To what, where: throne
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, that, people), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 throne | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 throne | det |
| 8 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleasant | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pleasant | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 pleasant | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleasant | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 pleasant | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 pleasant | advmod |
| 15 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 think | mark |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleasant | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | princess | the throne | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not is | present | that | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | people | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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