The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 46
The Princess’s surprise was great, but after what she had seen and heard it was impossible not to indulge in hope, for she had recognised the likeness of herself which her mother always wore.
Who acts: surprise, Princess, mother · What happens: be, see, hear, not indulge, recognise, wear · To what, where: hope, likeness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (surprise, Princess, mother), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Princess | case |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 great | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | cop |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 seen | cc |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 seen | mark |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 seen | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 great | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 impossible | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 impossible | cop |
| 18 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heard | ccomp |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 indulge | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 indulge | mark |
| 21 | indulge | indulge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 impossible | csubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hope | case |
| 23 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 indulge | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 recognised | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 recognised | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 recognised | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 recognised | aux |
| 28 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 indulge | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 likeness | det |
| 30 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 recognised | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 herself | case |
| 32 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 likeness | nmod |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 wore | obj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wore | nsubj |
| 36 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 37 wore | advmod |
| 37 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 likeness | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princess's surprise | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | Princess not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not indulge | to-infinitive | hope | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | recognise | past · perfect | Princess | the likeness of Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer likeness=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | wear | past | Princess's mother | the likeness of Princess | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source | |||
| 8 | surprise | the Princess | nom surprise «feeling 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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