The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 41
As soon as the King left, the Princess retired to her dressing-room, the parrot flew after her and overheard her lamentations at the continued persecutions of the King, who had pressed her to consent to their marriage.
Who acts: King, Princess, parrot, continued persecutions, persecutions · What happens: leave, retire, fly, overhear, continue, press · To what, where: lamentations, continued persecutions, Princess, King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (King, Princess, parrot, continued persecutions), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 left | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 left | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 retired | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 retired | nsubj |
| 10 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 room | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 room | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 dressing | punct |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 retired | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 parrot | det |
| 18 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flew | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 overheard | cc |
| 23 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flew | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lamentations | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 overheard | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 persecutions | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 persecutions | det |
| 28 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 persecutions | amod |
| 29 | persecutions | persecution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 overheard | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 King | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 persecutions | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pressed | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 pressed | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 pressed | aux |
| 36 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 persecutions | acl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pressed | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 consent | mark |
| 39 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 pressed | advcl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 marriage | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 42 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 consent | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the King | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | retire | past | the Princess | to Princess's dressing room | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | the parrot | after Princess | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | overhear | past | the parrot not said here | Princess's lamentations | the continued persecutions of the King | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamentation=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | continue | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | press | past · perfect | the continued persecutions of the King | Princess | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result | ||||
| 7 | consent | to-infinitive | the continued persecutions of the King not said here | to persecutions's marriage | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=Theme | ||||
| 8 | lament | Princess | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | persecute | the King | nom persecution «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | marry | persecutions = persecution | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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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