The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 88
The Princess grew white with terror when she heard these words; but Ferko felt much more cheerful than he had done the first time, and wandered out into the meadows again, wondering how he was to get out of the difficulty.
Who acts: Princess, Ferko · What happens: grow, hear, feel, do, wander out, wonder · To what, where: words, meadows, difficulty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Ferko), 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 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | advcl |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 words | det |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 14 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 cheerful | advmod |
| 18 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 done | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cheerful | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wandered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wandered | cc |
| 28 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 wandered | advmod |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 meadows | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 meadows | det |
| 32 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wandered | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 wandered | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wondering | punct |
| 35 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 wandered | advcl |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 get | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 get | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 get | cop |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 get | mark |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wondering | ccomp |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 difficulty | case |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 difficulty | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 difficulty | det |
| 44 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 get | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Princess | with terror; white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Princess | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Ferko | cheerful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | Ferko | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wander out | past | Ferko not said here | the meadows | again | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into meadow=Destination | ||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Ferko not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is | past | Ferko | the difficulty | get 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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