The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 40
Only the lovely Princess was not present, for she was shut up in her tower weeping bitterly.
Who acts: lovely Princess, tower · What happens: not be, shut up, weep · To what, where: Princess, tower
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely Princess, tower), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 7 present | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 present | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 present | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 present | advmod |
| 7 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shut | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 shut | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shut | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shut | aux:pass |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 present | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 shut | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tower | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tower | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obl |
| 17 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 tower | acl |
| 18 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 17 weeping | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the lovely Princess | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shut up | past · passive | Princess | Princess's tower | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | Princess's tower not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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 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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