The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 8
The good-natured Princess at once left her home and her family and hurried to the ruined castle, and took possession of the room with the golden bed.
Who acts: good natured Princess · What happens: leave, hurry, ruin, take, possess · To what, where: home, ruined castle, possession, room
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good natured 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 | 5 Princess | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Princess | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 good | punct |
| 4 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Princess | amod |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 left | obl |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 family | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 family | nmod:poss |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 home | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hurried | cc |
| 15 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 left | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 18 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 castle | amod |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hurried | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 23 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 possession | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 bed | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bed | det |
| 29 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bed | amod |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the good natured Princess | Princess's home and Princess's family | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | hurry | participle | the good natured Princess not said here | the ruined castle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to castle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | take | past | the good natured Princess not said here | possession of the room | with the golden bed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||
| 5 | possess | the room | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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